From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:08:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config --get --path: check for unset $HOME
Message-ID: <20100726170837.GC4399@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimf73aczIILlQ5N_id97kJNmGAUf0QLlMl8my2r@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Should we maybe fall back on checking pw_dir in getpwuid() if $HOME isn't set?

Maybe.  Why?  On Unix I suspect it is such a rare case as to not
justify complicating the rules, but I do not know if it would help on
other platforms.

Jonathan