Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep

[Alan Post]

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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