[cygwin] Re: Noticed that mintty starts non-login bash with "Win+R mintty Enter".

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Wolff
> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 5:32 AM
> 
> Am 04.01.2021 um 23:33 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin:
> > I interact with Cygwin via mintty launched as "Win+R mintty Enter".

I do not put Cygwin in my windows PATH, (anymore since about 10 years ago).

> >
> > ...
> > After looking into docs I got that mintty should be launched with a parameter "-".
> >
> > Probably it was always that way.
> Yes, but it might be appropriate to apply special handling for this case
> and imply login mode if started via Win+R.
> What do others think?

I use an environment where settings are lost at logoff, so I have become accustomed to launching it from the command prompt.

I have not found it too difficult to type

	c:\cygwin64\bin\mintty /bin/bash -l

> 
> > ================
> >
> > Checking POSIX standard on what might be defined in login shell:
> >
> > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html (1997)
> > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html (2004)
> >
> > I noticed that USER is mentioned but LOGNAME is not only mentioned by
> > description is given:
> >
> >    The system shall initialize this variable at the time of login to be the
> >    user's login name.
> >
> > Cygwin's /etc/profile has:
> >
> >    # Set the user id
> >    USER="$(/usr/bin/id -un)"
> >
> > but there is nothing for LOGNAME... Shouldn't /etc/profile set LOGNAME too?
> Looks reasonable.
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