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Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep |
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Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:29:56 -0400 |
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.alyn.post. scripsit:
> /home would have been a safe assumption before Mac OS X, but that
> operating system uses /Users. /etc/usermgmt.conf on OpenBSD defines
> the user base_dir (to /home), I'm not sure how this value is
> determined on other operating systems.
Eh, what of it? It's a fallback to a fallback: no $HOME falls back to
getpwnam() (normally /etc/passwd but not necessarily), which then needs
a fallback. Falling back to I!AM!HOMELESS would be just about as good.
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