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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


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According to João Gonçalves on 12/12/2006 11:22 AM:
> I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message.
> I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using
> a different user.

Yes, it is annoying that when /tmp is not mounted, and / does not contain
a physical subdirectory named tmp, that bash refuses to start.  I'll
consider ripping that out of bash, since it was an upstream chunk of code
protected by __CYGWIN__ (ie. someone in the distant past, before I was
maintainer, thought that such a cygwin-specific patch would be useful),
and replacing it with mkdir("/tmp") instead.  Then the failure would only
be if /tmp cannot be created, rather than that it did not exist.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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