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Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep
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Alan Post |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep |
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Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:31:54 -0601 |
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:29:56PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> .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.
>
how about: it looks an awful lot like success? Should the fallback
be obviously a fallback?
-Alan
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- [Chicken-hackers] ep, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, John Cowan, 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, .alyn.post., 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, John Cowan, 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep,
Alan Post <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, Peter Bex, 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, .alyn.post., 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, Evan Hanson, 2013/07/09
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2013/07/11
Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep, .alyn.post., 2013/07/09