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Support unexpected events when trying to get the user's home directory#73
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I don't think this is a very useful error message.
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I have made the messages more explicatory. I have also added to missing |
…ome set in the passwd entry. Also, getpwent can fail: handle that. Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
…y cannot be determine Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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This patch makes sure that the program does not segfault
if it failes to read the passwd file or if the user does not have
an entry in the passwd file. It also not try to construct a pathname
with the user's home directory if missing from the passwd file,
i.e. null or empty.