Re: OAF and its starting cwd

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org> writes:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Dan Winship wrote:
> 
> > From: Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>
> > Subject: Re: OAF and its starting cwd 
> > 
> > > I can make oafd cd to / or the user's home directory on startup. It's
> > > working directory is not very important.
> > 
> > Actually, user's homedir would make more sense for oafd, since it runs
> > as the user. That way, if it SEGVs, it will successfully dump core,
> > rather than trying and failing to dump core into /
> 
> Which in turn would prevent unmounting of /home (which may be on a seperate
> partition or mounted over NFS).
> 

A whole lot of other programs running as the user would have the same
effect. Is it really a problem we need to worry about?

Regards,

Maciej