1.7.10/1.7.11: .Net programs started from a cygwin console may fail.
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@freemail.ru
Wed Feb 29 12:39:00 GMT 2012
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> > Dead on, thanks! The definitions of tmp and temp in /etc/profile result
>> > in a double definition of the %TMP% and %TEMP% dos variables from the
>> > .Net applications POV and it's too dumb to handle that gracefully.
>>
>> > So the solution is, either we drop the tmp and temp definitions in
>> > /etc/profile, or old .net apps should be started only after calling
>> > `unset tmp temp' in bash.
>>
>> > Btw., tmp and temp are not preserved this way in tcsh's profile scripts.
>> > So I'm wondering why we do it in /etc/profile. Can somebody give me a
>> > management summary?
>>
>> I guess that was an attempt to fix something that isn't made things right, but
>> left there for years.
>> I would rather propose to solve it the other way around and use /etc/fstab
>> functionality to mount Cygwin's /tmp to current user's %TEMP% folder.
>> I don't know, how would that work in multi-user environment, though.
> POSIX tools usually expect that system paths are shared between
> processes. Consider client-server situations with shared files
> (sockets, fifos) in /tmp. So, no, this is not a generic solution
> for Cygwin tools. Any user or admin is free to do that locally,
> of course.
%SystemRoot%/Temp then ?
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 29.02.2012, <16:21>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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