[Vm-dev] Mac VM: SecurityManager default untrustedUserDirectory

[Eliot Miranda]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John M McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Asking for the home directory should invoke a platform specific method that
> does the right thing.
> Perhaps on unix based machines you can use ~  ?


Surely you use getenv("HOME") right?  ~ is an abbreviation implemented in
the shell.  It is not meaningful to system calls; i.e. open("~",0) attempts
to open a file called "~" in the current directory, /not/ /Users/me.


>  However on systems that have file security turned on then you
> might need to lookup the squeak un trusted directory since the answer could
> be different.
>
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> On 2010-10-10, at 11:39 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
> >
> > On 10 October 2010 07:26, John M McIntosh
> > <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 4.2.5x   SqueakUnTrustedDirectory ->
>  ~/Library/Preferences/Squeak/Internet/My Squeak/
> >>
> >> 5.8.x    SqueakUnTrustedDirectory -> /foobar/tooBar/forSqueak/bogus/
> >>
> >> What would you like it to be?
> >
> > '/foobar/tooBar/forSqueak/bogus/' doesn't look meaningful, it doesn't
> > even exist on my system.
> >
> > The Filesystem library uses #untrustedUserDirectory this to find the
> > home directory. Maybe there is a better way to do that on Mac?
> >
> > Lukas
> >
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