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Bug#129933: marked as done (twm: uses only getenv(HOME), not getpwent())

Your message dated Sun, 6 Mar 2011 01:42:01 +0100
with message-id <20110306004201.GA29546@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#129933: twm only checks $HOME; it doesn't call getpwent
has caused the Debian Bug report #129933,
regarding twm: uses only getenv(HOME), not getpwent()
to be marked as done.

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Package: twm
Version: 4.1.0-5
Severity: minor

(this is an upstream bug)

If twm is called without $HOME set, it can't find the users home directory, so
can't look there for config files.

[23:06:56,385,Twm-Log] can't find user's HOME, looking for config file in current directory.

I've straced and ltraced twm, and it calls getenv("HOME"), but not getpwent.
Gimp, in this same situation, does properly find the user's home directory.

This particular user is not logged in.  Su was used to change to the user, and
start the process.

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Hi,

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> (22/02/2011):
> $HOME is the better source to find out about a user's home dir.
> See
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/getpwnam.3.html#NOTES

yeah, looks like not a bug to me. Closing this bug report
accordingly. Thank to both of you.

KiBi.

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