Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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

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