Re: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s paces

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

Cygwin uses the PATH variable internally.  The windows API has no
problems with filenames or directories with spaces in them.  When you
start attempting to use filenames with spaces on a command line, then
you have problems.  You have problems with PATH in this context, too,
and, in fact, people have reported the same overwhelming perplexing
problems with using PATH in this context as they have with HOME.

cgf

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 02:57:10PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Well the path variable is an example of this that seems to work w/o
>problems.
>
>Rob
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Earnie Boyd"
><earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>; "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com>; "'Ignasi
>Palou-Rivera'" <palou@yahoo.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 10:17 AM
>Subject: Re: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s
>paces
>
>
>> If you can figure a way to make sure that spaces in HOME are always
>treated
>> as escaped no matter how its used, that's a possibility.  After doing some
>> shell programming, its not clear to me how one could guarantee that spaces
>> in any environment variable is always escaped but just because the notion
>> eludes me doesn't mean it couldn't be done!;-)
>>
>> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
>> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
>> 118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>>
>>
>>
>> At 07:13 PM 10/20/2000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >What about having cygwin "\ " escape the spaces?
>> >
>> >Worth a thought?
>> >
>> >Rob
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
>> >To: "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com>; "'Ignasi Palou-Rivera'"
>> ><palou@yahoo.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>> >Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:55 AM
>> >Subject: RE: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has
>s
>> >paces
>> >
>> >
>> > > Brad's comment is certainly valid but your solution, Ignasi, is
>already
>> > > implemented in the current setup.exe.  IMO the better solution is to
>use a
>> > > mount point like so (using Brad's example):
>> > >   mkdir -p /home/palau ;# if it doesn't already exist
>> > >   mount -b "C:/Documents and Settings/palau/My Documents" /home/palau
>> > >
>> > > I suppose that we should add a W2K entry in the TODO list for this
>issue.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Earnie.
>> > > --- "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com> wrote:
>> > > > The best solution would be to not have spaces in HOME at all, since
>it
>> > > > breaks many a good program.  For example, if you wanted your home
>> >directory
>> > > > to be "C:\Documents and Settings\palau\My Documents", you could use
>> > > > "C:\Docume~1\palau\MyDocu~1" or a mount point.
>> > > >
>> > > > Brad Town
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > > From: Ignasi Palou-Rivera [mailto:palou@yahoo.com]
>> > > > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:33 AM
>> > > > > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>> > > > > Subject: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME
>has
>> > > > > spaces
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > The default /etc/profile for the 1.1.4 version of CygWin chokes
>when
>> > > > > HOME is defined including blanks. The solution is to quote the
>> > > > > reference to $HOME in line 14:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > IPALOU$ diff profile profile.orig
>> > > > > 14c14
>> > > > > < if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
>> > > > > ---
>> > > > > > if [ ! -d $HOME ]; then
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I'm running under Win2000, but I'm sure that's irrelevant.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Ignasi.
>> > > >
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