[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

[Warren Young]

> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org> wrote:
> 
> I tried (according to the new documentation):
> 
> db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir
> 
> and that was fine but %H was replaced by the
> /cygdrive/C/Document and Settings/<user> prefix

I don’t think you should use %H when that directory might contain spaces.  It’s likely to cause many problems.

> i was
> expecting the /cygdrive/C/Home/<user> prefix instead.

In that case, I recommend

    db_home: /cygdrive/c/Home/%U

I may be misunderstanding your desire.  If you actually want Cygwin home directories under c:\Documents and Settings, you can combine nsswitch.conf settings with a custom mount point in fstab to avoid the need for spaces in $HOME:

    C:/Documents\040and\040Settings /home ntfs binary 0 0

Now you can say something like this in nsswitch.conf:

    db_home: /home/%U
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