Yup ... I see what you mean. I did a quick search on the internet and found that NSUserDirectory returns /Network/Users with the Network domain mask, /Users with the User domain mask, and nothing with the other ones.
Hmmm. Interpreted in this way, 'NSUserDirectory' is not very useful as a concept, because eg in Unix systems users can have their directory anywhere on disk. While most "normal" users will have /home/xxx as their home directories, that's not necessarily always the case (just think of root). Anyway I suppose in our implementation we just let people specify in their filesystem layout a 'location of user home directories' (by default, /home), store it in all the various config files, and have it returned for the combination of NSUserDirectory/LocalDomain ? Do we need to bother with a different location for the network domain, or with a different location for each domain ? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, March 6, 2007 8:34 am To: Nicola Pero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: GNUstep Developer <gnustep-dev@gnu.org> Subject: (no subject) While looking at a bug in the way the services system was using NSUserDirectory and appending Library to get the user's Library direcdtory (which was always wrong, but used to work), I decided to check what MacOS-X does. It returns /Users and /Network/Users when given the all domains mask. So this constant should return the directories in which user's home directories can be found. This is *not* what the current GNUstep implementation does. I guess we should try to emulate MacOS-X behavior ... and I guess that means we need further filesystem modifications to make and base ... does that sound reasonable? _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
