Re: acquiring wrong home directory

[Thomas Wolff]

Larry Jones wrote:
> towo@computer.org writes:
>   
> >   
> > Hi, thanks for your response. Here is some diagnostic log:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 TOWOLEO 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin
> >
> > towo@TOWOLEO ~
> > $ cvs --version
> >
> > Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13 (client/server)
> >     
> [...]
>   
> > towo@TOWOLEO ~
> > $ echo $HOME
> > /cygdrive/d/Texte/towo
> >
> > towo@TOWOLEO ~
> > $ cvs login
> > Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:2401/cvs/src
> > CVS password:
> > cvs login: CVS password file /home/towo/.cvspass does not exist - 
> > creating a new file
> >     
>
> It seems to be something specific to cygwin -- that works fine on other
> Unix and Unix-like systems.  You'll need to find someone with more
> intimate knowledge of cygwin and the cygwin port of CVS to figure out
> what's going on.  For this specific issue, you can set $CVS_PASSFILE to
> work around the problem.
>   
Hi, a tried to check this a little bit.
A quick grep for "getpw" as well as for "HOME" through the sources 
reveals something different;
in src/sanity.sh, it says explicitly:
         # CVS looks at the home dir from getpwuid, not HOME (is that 
correct
         # behavior?), so this is hard to test and we won't try.
No, this is not correct behaviour.
In a few Changelogs, it seems this has been touched multiple times.
In src/filesubr.c, function get_homedir, using $HOME depends on the flag 
!server_active -
while I didn't dig into this deeper and don't know when exactly this 
flag is set, it does not look proper and I suspect this to be the cause 
of the problem
Kind regards,
Thomas