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On Aug 3 20:43, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 03.08.2015 um 15:19 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >- When started from a non-Cygwin process, check if $HOME starts with a > > slash (absolute POSIX path). Otherwise ignore it. > > Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-07/msg00344.html > I would expect $HOME to be considered if it denotes an absolute path, > even in Windows notation, and fortunately it still works :) > On the other hand, if HOME is something like set HOME=bla, a new > directory /usr/bin/bla is created and initialised as home directory. > Don't know whether that's desirable, but in fact it's not being ignored. > Thomas It's ignored as $HOME in the Cygwin DLL. It's apparently not ignored in the base-files package, but that's another problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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