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

cyg Simple cygsimple@gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 13:23:00 GMT 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 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.

As long as it isn't removed completely I don't care what the default is.

cyg Simple

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