We already encourage upstreams to keep the default configuration
separate from user customizations for software that is installed in
the system location. Let's allow that separation also for software
that is installed in the home directory.
Some discussion:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/19627
There was this code:
if (to_path_len > 0)
memcpy(p, to_path, to_path_len);
That didn't add the terminating zero, so the resulting string was
corrupt if this code path was taken.
Using strcpy() instead of memcpy() solves this issue, and also
simplifies the code.
Previously there was special handling for shortening "../../" to
"../..", but that has now been replaced by a path_kill_slashes() call,
which also makes the result prettier in case the input contains
redundant slashes that would otherwise be copied to the result.
In user_dirs() in path-lookup.c, I want to replace this:
symlink("../../../.config/systemd/user", data_home);
with
symlink(config_home, data_home);
to avoid hardcoding .config when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set.
The problem is that config_home is an absolute path, and it's better
to make the symlink relative. path_make_relative() is an utility
function that converts an absolute path into a relative one.
Tanu Kaskinen