vim do not guess $HOME when unavailable

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:32:23AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Is this intended (and if yes why) ? or shouldn't it use getpwuid to find 
> > the information ?
> Vim only uses $HOME, so that you can specify what home directory to use.
> So far I haven't seen a reason to do otherwise.  Not having $HOME set is
> likely to cause trouble.

Agreed.

But why not falling back to getpwuid() (or the correct brother) if $HOME
is unavailable && the target OS supports that function? It wont cause
any harm AFAICT.

Cheers.

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