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Re: Problems with a CGI script


From: Marcus G. Daniels
Subject: Re: Problems with a CGI script
Date: 30 Jul 1998 09:17:34 -0700

>>>>> "B" == Benedikt Stefansson <address@hidden> writes:

B> I wonder if Marcus or Alex can explain why we even have the kernel
B> / archive object look for the users home directory when Swarm is
B> executing in batchmode? It seems like a bad idea overall, since it
B> would seem to decrease portability - i.e. dependency on Unix shell
B> type environments etc. Wouldn't it be a good idea to switch around
B> this code block when the batchmode flag is set? (I'm assuming that
B> only the archiver depends on knowing where the users home directory
B> is).

I'll add a autoconf test for getenv and add a conditional to skip
archiving when getenv or HOME aren't there.

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