On 10 August 2007 16:22, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> The problem (/my/ problem and maybe Ronald's) is that d reads the home > directory from /etc/passwd and not from the environment variable > $HOME. In my setup these differ. Is that even valid? Hmmm. Posix does say: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html " HOME The system shall initialize this variable at the time of login to be a pathname of the user's home directory. See <pwd.h>. " but then again, it also says: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html " 3.192 Home Directory The directory specified by the HOME environment variable. " and also: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html " HOME Determine the pathname of the user's home directory. The contents of HOME are used in tilde expansion as described in Tilde Expansion. This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 specifies the effects of this variable only for systems supporting the User Portability Utilities option. " although that last one was revised in Issue 6: " In the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section, the text "user's home directory" is updated to "directory referred to by the HOME environment variable". " > In my opinion $HOME should take precedence over the home directory set > in /etc/passwd. I think it's kind of ambiguous. The 'd' man page specifically refers to ".d.conf in the user's home directory", as opposed to "~/.d.conf"; I think those two definitions are allowed to diverge, from what I quoted above. The spec is unclear: how can you initialise HOME from "the user's home directory", if whatever the user's home directory is is only defined in terms of the contents of $HOME, without reference to field #6 in /etc/passwd? That would be a circular reference to uninitialised data, that would! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
