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Subject: patch post requested by Waldo
From: AlanE <alane () geeksrus ! net>
Date: 2002-12-19 7:46:32
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The following patch has been confirmed to fix a kdesu-related bug in
arts.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51381
This patch was against KDE 3.1-RC5.
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--- mcop/mcoputils.cc.orig Sat Feb 9 08:10:12 2002
+++ mcop/mcoputils.cc Thu Dec 19 02:31:13 2002
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <config.h>
#include <ctype.h>
+#include <pwd.h> //included to get logname from uid
#include <map>
using namespace std;
@@ -73,8 +74,18 @@
string MCOPUtils::createFilePath(string name)
{
+// changed to get logname from uid instead of environment variable
+// LOGNAME to avoid trouble when LOGNAME does not exist or
+// is wrong (such as in kdesu environment)
+// S. Voitzsch Sebastian.Voitzsch@web.de
+// 2002-12-03
+
+ struct passwd *pwd = NULL;
+ pwd = getpwuid(geteuid());
+ if (pwd == NULL) arts_fatal("could not get user name from user id");
+
string logname = "unknown";
- if(getenv("LOGNAME")) logname = getenv("LOGNAME");
+ logname = pwd->pw_name;
string tmpdir = "/tmp/mcop-"+uglify(logname);
if(mkdir(tmpdir.c_str(),0700) != 0 && errno != EEXIST)
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--
AlanE (Alan Eldridge), who likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs.
Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, desperately seeking employment in NYC.
(http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.rtf)
KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/)
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