> This is debatable ... Can you provide pros and cons > for this from your > point of view?
For example, I have a package that delivers /.cshrc, /.login and /.logout. Determining root's home directory via public interfaces is unreliable, namely because such public interfaces aren't well defined. I could look directly into /etc/passwd, but as "Indiana" clearly shows now, there is no guarantee whatsoever, that home directory field will be at a fixed position. I could also use `finger`, but there's no guarantee that the output won't change, thereby breaking my regex parser for it. For crying out loud, they broke the output of `uname -a`. And so what if there are a few /.*rc files laying around in /? How is that a problem? But moving root's home account around does break customer's software. The promise of SunOS is that it would remain backward and forward compatible; that is why environments that need to be super-stable and super-reliable prefer it over any other operating system. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
