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Re: what path to use that is not DOS??


Eric Blake wrote:
On 10/08/2014 01:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
I get this message the 1st time logging in via 'rlogin':

 MS-DOS style path detected:
/Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
 Preferred POSIX equivalent is:
/Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law

Could any prefix of that path be a symlink with questionable contents?

Cygwin can't use any of the normal methods to find my home
and because USERNAME isn't set it tries 'USER'.

So for a mail-spool dir it looks for
/usr/spool/mail/<USER=Bliss\law>

The backslash is in the USER var.

I would say this is a result of logind corrupting
the environment and losing all of windows's expected environment.




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