[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49765] Windows CLI version octave tries to write history to C:\

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #49765 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Attempting to write the history file to the root directory is not a bug in and
of itself. But maybe it is a bug that there is no fallback mechanism for
getting the user's home directory, or that it's not working in this scenario,
on Windows.

Having no HOME variable on a GNU system falls back to checking the pwent
database. On Windows, it is supposed to check HOME, followed by HOMEDRIVE and
HOMEPATH. If none of these environment variables are set, is there a system
call Octave can make to get the user's home directory?

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