Re: make_services coredumping when it runs with no defaults

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 06:53 AM, Pablo Di Noto wrote:
> I noticed that make_services segfaults and coredumps when it is run
> without a defaults database. I am sourcing
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh from my global bashrc file.
> Everything works ok with my user, but and when switch to root via

I think this might be due to two problems. The first is that 
NSUserName() doesn't work correctly when the user is root (uid=0), 
returning a nil username. The second  is -[NSFileManager 
-createDirectoryAtPath:attributes:] doesn't check for a nil path. This 
patch fixes both.

rootuser.patch
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