(copy sent to me and to nnn-forwarded, didn't reach the list therefore)
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- To: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
- Cc: 396835-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Wishlist for kpathsea: Remove trailing slash from $HOME
- From: Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:37:29 +0100
- Message-id: <87psapqohi.fsf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
- In-reply-to: <86ejrcu5vi.fsf_-_@alhambra.kuesterei.ch> (Frank Küster's message of "Wed\, 06 Dec 2006 21\:27\:45 +0100")
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Frank Küster writes: [tale of woe deleted] > Anyway, it might be an idea to remove any trailing slashes from > directory variables inherited from the environment, like HOME. It won't > hurt anywhere, and make it a bit more, well, "fool"proof. > What do you think? In the current sources this seems to be partially done, in that tilde expansion will handle this in almost all cases. Other environment variables are not so protected. A complication is that variables like TEXINPUTS could legitimately be set to end with //. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)
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-- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)