Re: OAF and its starting cwd



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).

Greets,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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