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common: Fix HomeDir detection

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I am working on porting geth to [Ubuntu Core](https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/). I am testing geth on a Raspberry PI and for Ubuntu Core the $HOME directory is unique for each application. See [here](https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/filesystem-layout) for more information of their filesystem layout.

For some reason in Go `usr.HomeDir` returns a different value than `$HOME` in Ubuntu Core.

Adding this at the end of `HomeDir()`
```go
fmt.Printf("at HomeDir, user.HomeDir = %s and $HOME is %s\n", usr.HomeDir, os.Getenv("HOME"))
```

gives the following output

```
at HomeDir, user.HomeDir = /home/ubuntu and $HOME is /home/ubuntu/apps/geth.sideload/IJcODREBYbHO
```

With this commit, I propose giving precedence to the `$HOME` environment variable as is also suggested by the [homedir](https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/blob/master/homedir.go) project.
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Lefteris Karapetsas 2016-01-08 12:35:57 +01:00
parent 32226f1b0c
commit e2fdd33541
1 changed files with 7 additions and 6 deletions
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common/path.go
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@ -63,13 +63,14 @@ func AbsolutePath(Datadir string, filename string) string {
return filepath.Join(Datadir, filename)
}
func HomeDir() (home string) {
if usr, err := user.Current(); err == nil {
home = usr.HomeDir
} else {
home = os.Getenv("HOME")
func HomeDir() string {
if home := os.Getenv("HOME"); home != "" {
return home
}
return
if usr, err := user.Current(); err == nil {
return usr.HomeDir
}
return ""
}
func DefaultDataDir() string {