Date:Sat, 24 Dec 2022 22:32:22 -0500
From:Jan Schaumann
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| I happily admit that it's a rare edge case. I simply
| find it surprising that 'cd' gives up if HOME is
| unset. Seems unintuitive to me.
It is how it is defined to work, and always has bee
Robert Elz wrote:
> Why bother?
I happily admit that it's a rare edge case. I simply
find it surprising that 'cd' gives up if HOME is
unset. Seems unintuitive to me.
-Jan
Why bother?It is already clear that one cannot depend upon this
working, and nothing normally should ever have HOME unset, unless that
is done deliberately (perhaps even to prevent a simple "cd" from
going there).
kre
Jan Schaumann wrote:
> "A common extension when HOME is undefined is to get
> the login directory from the user database for the
> invoking user. This does not occur on System V
> implementations."
>
> I'm surprised that /bin/sh does not use the user's
> home directory from getpwuid() in that ca
Date:Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:20:27 - (UTC)
From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
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| The message says that no century information is found in the CMOS RAM,
| the hardware clock itself seems to keep only 2 year digits. The century
| is then deduced
