Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep

[.alyn.post.]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:20:36PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:
> 
> > My concern is with regard to environments where the user home directory
> > cannot be determined (e.g., no HOME environment variable, no home
> > directory set in /etc/passwd etc.).
> 
> I think if there is no $HOME and no /etc/passwd entry, you should just assume
> /home/$username, and if you don't know that, go with /home/nobody or something
> equally improbable.  Your system has to be pretty broken before you
> get to that state, and you have more immediate problems than a malfunctioning
> Chicken app.
> 

/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.

-Alan
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