220 34371 article Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Re: home_directory for filesystem Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:52:04 -0400 Lines: 54 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: References: <37a2ebea-dfb0-4306-a6f0-780e790b79ee@isocpp.org> <8af34c7a-85a1-4662-a8a4-ffeaf3ee32ac@isocpp.org> <5aa4bd1e-991a-4d53-b85c-b92f1833ccda@isocpp.org> <61d16c42-8f27-47ad-8bee-76fd603bce09@isocpp.org> <08f9f13a-bc17-41a8-a435-b219d9cd89ab@isocpp.org> <58f0a39d-e660-4785-a065-c5ae234ed613@isocpp.org> <99bdbba4-7ed5-479d-9ae9-8e93fbc37c04@isocpp.org> <2de82947-a4f6-4436-9982-4a57ba60e62c@isocpp.org> <885c824c-4c51-4e61-950d-7bcf8f39bcda@isocpp.org> <41bed338-10ff-4c24-99b4-702babec0a34@isocpp.org> Reply-To: std-proposals@isocpp.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a11435ed8342e5b0558f0f13b" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505330556 5611 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2017 19:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Niall Douglas , david.bolvansky@gmail.com, tortoise741@gmail.com To: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-X-From: std-proposals+bncBDKJJPVBQMKRBGUL3TGQKGQECCAK2EY@isocpp.org Mon Sep 11 23:52:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-lf0-f71.google.com ([209.85.215.71]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drWcv-0003O3-8u for gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; 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In Unix, the various flavors of= getpwnam and getpwuid= return a pointer to a=C2=A0= struct passwd=C2=A0whose=C2=A0pw= _dir field is the user's home directory.=C2=A0 In Windows, the= =C2=A0GetUserProfileDirectory function is (at least = a close approximation to) the user's home directory.=C2=A0 So on those = systems (which are the vast majority of all systems that have filesystems a= nd users) there is a concept of home directory without reference to environ= ment variables.

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