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#17 Home directory hard-coded under Windows
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nobody
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2008-02-27
2007-12-05
Anonymous
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When building under Windows the home directory is hardcoded as C:\ -- not only is this wrong but it will fail under restricted accounts/Vista where the user doesn't have access to the root directory
The source states "Maybe I should grab home_dir from registry, but the best that I could get from there is user's Start menu. It sucks!" however there are ectually three environment variables to different directories that could be used (each has a slightly different usage/meaning):-
USERPROFILE -- path to root of user home directory
LOCALAPPDATA -- path to non-roaming settings directory
APPDATA -- path to roaming settings directory
There is also the "TEMP" environment variable that should always be define -- if a getenv() on all of these fail something is very seriously is wrong!
David Field
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Please provide a patch if possible, since I have no means to test/build this on windows.