From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:14:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] Updated patch series for providing mechanism to list available repositories
Message-ID: <1280358894.31999.9.camel@balanced-tree>
In-Reply-To: <20100728064251.GB743@dert.cs.uchicago.edu>

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 01:42 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> (if you use getpwent instead of getenv to fetch $HOME).

That seems like it could lead to problems with multiple users with the
same UID, and possibly also on Windows.  If it’s important to be
paranoid here, what about all the other places Git already uses
getenv("HOME"), including where it reads ~/.gitconfig?

Anders