recent cygwin update changed $HOME

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:02 PM 11/18/2001, Garrett Anderson wrote:
>[ apologies if this has already been discussed ]


No apologies necessary.  Just check the email archives for the answer.
It was discussed within the last week.  Searching for "HOME" and "bash" 
should get you a pointer to the pertinent discussions quickly enough.



>Hello --
>
>Up until recent cygwin update, the " virtual root" for cygwin environment was under "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/".   Thus, the cygwin environment read the "/cygwin/c/cygwin/etc/passwd" file for shell and $HOME.  
>
>After recent update:   the "root" has changed to "/cygdrive/c"
>
>Why did this happen and how do I change this to previous??    I have gratuitous shell script / apps / etc. that depend on previous "virtual root".    I assume this can now be set via some init. parameter (in bash??).
>
>Please advise -- and why the change??  Thanks -GA
>
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