## Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us): > Isn't that a flat out violation of POSIX 8.3 Other Environment Variables? > > 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>. > > To claim it's not, you have to claim these programs aren't logged in, > in which case where did they get any privileges from?
After poking around across some Linuxes, it looks like people silently agreed that "services" are not logged-in users: among the daemons, having HOME set (as observed in /proc/*/environ) is an exception, not the norm. I'm not sure if that's a "new" thing with systemd, I don't have a linux with pure SysV-init available (but I guess those are rare animals anyways). Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space
