Hello Thomas,
> > i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user
> Erich: Do you still wish the wish you wished?
Well, I currently don't remember where/what I used it for, but after all
this is a common task, identifying a users homedir... something I'd like
to avoid starting a perl interpreter for.
I'm pretty sure, the "homedir.c" program I used in the bug report is
still being used on the box I needed it on... IMHO it makes still sense
to have such a tool standardized, more than firing up a perl interpreter
and such.
When avoiding printf() and using write() instead, building it with diet
gcc,
the static binary is around 2k... ;-) and without diet it's less then
4k.
I mean, it's not a huge thing, is it?
I am aware that usually you can do things like "echo ~username" to
achieve the same result, but how would you e.g. obtain another users
home directory in procmail? Does procmail support ~username expansion?
I don't really care anymore, though. So go ahead and just close the bug.
best regards,
Erich Schubert
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