>* Lots of system daemons do chdir("/") as part of their startup. If
>they use libraries that try and read config files from the users home
>dir then they can end up reading the ones for the root user, that might
>not be desirable.
Please name one example; I think you're just making this up. Are you
suggesting that libraries exist which read config files from the current
directory?
>* because the root user can have personal config files and the existence
>of those files should not be available to unprivileged users, or for
>tidyness.
>
>* consistency with other systems
>
>* because we can and there is no downside to doing so
I'm sure there's stuff which breaks because ~root no longer expands to
/
Casper
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