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--- Begin Message ---Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.6.4-1 Severity: minor The documentation for g_get_home_dir specifies: | G_CONST_RETURN gchar* g_get_home_dir (void); | | Gets the current user's home directory. | | Note that in contrast to traditional Unix tools, this function | prefers passwd entries over the HOME environment variable. | | Returns : the current user's home directory. Which is obvious self-contradicting, as the home directory is the content of the HOME environment variable, and the passwd entry is only one possible initial value (if it exists at all). As the comment seems to indicate that it does not return the home directory, it should rather read something like: Gets the current user's possible initial home directory. Note that the actual home directory for this program can be get by reading the HOME environment variable, this is only a value which was most likely used by the login program to initial set it. Returns : the current user's most likely initial home directory. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.13.4-1 Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2005, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > libgtk ignores the current home directory, but uses the possible > initial value from getpwuid delivered by g_get_home_dir. This is an historical decision in the implementation of g_get_home_dir() as it was deemed too risky to expose $HOME to apps not prepared for properly testing the sanity of the directory. This has been documented extensively in version 2.13.0 upstream, hence I'm closing this bug. Bye, -- Loïc Minier
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