From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] guile-readline: Use an empty string if HOME is unset Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:00:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83k35b9zs0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vbowa3g5.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410368443 1437 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2014 17:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: David Michael Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 19:00:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRlFn-0006xW-IB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57534 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRlFn-0005qp-99 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRlFd-0005a5-19 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRlFU-0008DR-2E for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:55064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRlFT-00089b-Qi for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NBP00A002QCUP00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:54:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NBP001KI2YI6OA0@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:54:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vbowa3g5.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17435 Archived-At: > From: David Michael > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:28:42 -0400 > > -(define-once history-file (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.guile_history")) > +(define-once history-file > + (string-append (or (getenv "HOME") "") "/.guile_history")) Is there any guarantee that the root directory will be writable? How about "./.guile_history" instead?