Re: [Sbcl-devel] home: known or not?

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:42:16PM +0000, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> Peter Van Eynde <pva...@de...> writes:
> > So if sbcl returns #P"home:" it should also define the LPN, not?

Oops.
 
> "If", yes.  I would prefer to fix this by changing
> USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME to use gecos information and return an actual
> (physical) pathname.  What say you all?

Returning a physical pathname sounds good to me.

I don't know what gecos is. "man" doesn't seem to know either. But
guessing from context that it's a reasonably portable way to get the
home directory, it sounds good too.

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