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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: 24275@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 19:14:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160821231410.GA4548@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160820201100.GA22429@jocasta.intra>

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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:11:00PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> Installing GuixSD 0.11.0 creates a directory called /nonexistent
> Despite its name, it does actually exist.

I checked, and it's the 'nobody' user's home directory:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/shadow.scm#n125

> I suggest that we rename it or delete it.

I think it's very appropriate for nobody to live in a nonexistent
directory ;)

But, I noticed that the directory doesn't exist on my GuixSD system,
which has been reconfigured since the commit that introduced this
directory (2d94702ff). My nobody is still using '/var/empty'.

I wonder if that's a problem?

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-21 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-20 20:11 bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD John Darrington
2016-08-21 23:14 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-08-22  8:21   ` Alex Kost
2016-08-22  8:47     ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-22 18:09       ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 11:04         ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-27 23:32           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-27 23:49             ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-28 13:48               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-28 14:44                 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-29  8:04                   ` Ludovic Courtès

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