Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

On 7 March 2011 22:13, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/7/2011 8:42 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> In the current 3.9-3, TEMP and TMP are unset in ~/.bashrc, as
>> suggested here by Corinna. Thing is, ~/.bashrc is only sourced for
>> non-login shells, yet the default console/mintty/rxvt shortcuts all
>> invoke bash as a login shell. In other words, this change might as
>> well not have been made as far as the vast majority of users are
>> concerned.
>
> I don't think that's right. ÂThe default ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc,
> so the latter does get sourced for login shells.

You're right. I was under the wrong impression that that was new with
base-files 4.0.

Andy

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