home dir in cygwin

[Erik Price]

pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> I'm curious why you think that is arcane[1]?  I was about to remark 
> something amazingly similar to mod, but got distracted and Derek beat 
> me to it[2] :)
> 
> That knowledge is indispensable to anyone who needs to debug user 
> environments (e.g. a sysadmin).
> 
> Are you saying it's arcane just because you didn't know it, or 
> because you do, but didn't expect anyone else to.
> 
> (I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from, no insult is 
> meant by this line of questioning.)

Because I didn't know it.  And I had never heard of a getpwent() 
function, nor did I know that sysadmins often resorted to knowledge of C 
structs and pointers in the course of their work.  (I don't run a Linux 
box, I just have an account on a friend's, so this man page isn't 
something I've ever seen before.  And the machine I *do* run is MacOS X, 
which doesn't use an /etc/passwd file for user info.)

Arcaneness is just relative, I guess.


Erik