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Id: 127138
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Queue: File-BaseDir
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Requestors: trichmond [...] proofpoint.com
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  Tue Sep 18 12:31:24 2018 trichmond [...] proofpoint.com - Ticket created
Subject: More complete check for $home
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:12:31 +0000
To: "bug-File-BaseDir [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-File-BaseDir [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Todd Richmond <trichmond [...] proofpoint.com>
When $ENV{HOME} is not set, fall back to the user’s entry from /etc/passwd on non-MSWin32 systems. This will allow applications that don’t run under a shell that set HOME to still use their own values rather than root’s my $home = $ENV{HOME}; $home =(getpwuid($>))[7] unless ($home || $^O eq ‘MSWin32’); unless ($home) { …
  Wed Oct 17 02:11:04 2018 kimryan [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Please note that this module has been put up for adoption. I'm not able to maintain it anymore for several reasons, but bug reports are still coming to me.
  Wed Oct 17 02:11:04 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'