Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

[Thomas Wolff]

Just commenting on one aspects:
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile.
>>>>> Then things should work as in linux.
>>>> Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a Windows
>>>> application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin?
A Windows application is likely to fail on cygpath-transformed values of 
TEMP and TMP anyway, or am I missing something?
(E.g. is there some implicit back-transformation if cygwin starts a 
Windows application?)

Thomas

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