Fwd: XDG Base directory specification

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Tue Jun 3 12:05:53 EEST 2003


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On Monday 02 June 2003 20:27, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 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?

An invalid directory would be mostly a "non-existing directory", no?

Cheers,
Waldo
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