On 6 Mar 2007, at 11:24, Nicola Pero wrote:
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).
I agree ... it's not an idea I'd want to base my code on (I guess you
can use NSHomeDirectoryForUser() in most cases).
Presumably the idea is that you can iterate through the
subdirectories of these paths to find all the 'normal' user
directories. I've never needed to do that.
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 ?
For consistency I guess we should ... presumably it's not much more
effort to do that. The whole thing is really for MacOS-X
compatibility though, so i think we must at least support the user
and network domains.
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