BUG: cygwin warning: barfs on domain-based-mboxes; env corrupted by login(-p disabled)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 28 11:03:00 GMT 2014


On Oct 27 23:09, Linda Walsh wrote:
> cygwin warning:
>  MS-DOS style path detected: /usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
>  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
>  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
> warning.
>  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

The next Cygwin release will have CYGWIN=dosfilewarning set to OFF
by default.

If anybody thinks it's really worth to keep this option available
and ON by default, please speak up.


Corinna

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