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Teo wrote:[Sun Dec 08 2002, 08:53:38AM EST] |
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> I'm trying to find out why the sandbox feature in portage makes it |
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> crash in my system after a recent world update. I found out that |
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> mplayer also crashes if run as root because he "Can't find HOME |
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> directory". After a little dig-dug in the source I discovered that |
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> getenv("HOME") returns NULL, even though the command "set" displays |
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> "HOME=/root". Besides, if launched as "HOME=/root mplayer", the |
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> program runs fine. However, so do "ls ~" and "echo $HOME". |
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> Does anyone know where does this discrepancy come from? |
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The "set" command shows you the current set of internal bash variables. |
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It doesn't necessarily reflect what will be passed to a child process's |
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environment. To get that list use the "export" command. |
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When you run "HOME=/root mplayer" you are adding the HOME variable to |
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mplayer's environment. |
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Normally I think HOME is automatically exported. What shell are you |
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using? |
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