zsh (oh-my-zsh) hangs on cygwin-3.5.5-1

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Daisuke Fujimura!

Pardon my intervention, but I'd like to make an unrelated comment…

>> Are any additional settings necessary?

> - zsh is specified by the environment variable SHELL.
> - HOME is a symbolic link. (`/home/myname` -> `/cygdrive/c/Users/myname`)

I'd suggest using nsswitch.conf/db_home setting to point Cygwin to your
profile directly over using a symlink to access it.
You could (and most likely want to) retain the symlink for when you want to
navigate through /home/, but otherwise a direct reference would be a more
stable configuration.
Symlinks are fragile and easily lost to the sands of time.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, January 4, 2025 04:43:59

Sorry for my terrible english...