Fwd: XDG Base directory specification

Jonathan Blandford jrb at redhat.com
Mon Jun 2 21:27:43 EEST 2003


Waldo Bastian <bastian at kde.org> writes:
> 
>    Alternatively, the spec could define that an empty value
>    should be treated identically to an unset value - ie, the
>    default path should be used.  I'm not certain that empty
>    values for environment variables are supported on all
>    platforms - if not, this behaviour seems the only reasonable
>    option.

I think it should be treated the same if an invalid directory is passed
in.  Currently that behavior is undefined.  Waldo, can we put something
in the spec?

Thanks,
-Jonathan



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