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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Need help with ELM on Apollo
Message-ID: <5004@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 05:39:41 GMT
References: <183@camdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <183@camdev.UUCP> sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott) writes:
+The Apollo distributed file system references everything by a system root
+(//).  So, for example, home directories are of the sort //{node}/users/foo,
+etc.  Now, ELM when finding a person's home directory (from /etc/passwd,
+I presume :-)), strips the initial / leaving /{node}/users/foo, which
+does NOT exist in the file system.  

Something else must be going on because ELM does get the user's home
directory from /etc/passwd, via a call to getpwuid(3), but does not
strip off the "extra" /. Elm uses the home diretory as-is taken from
the structure returned by getpwuid(3). Could it be on Apollo that getpwuid(3)
removes the "extra" leading '/', or that /etc/passwd only has a single
'/'?
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