[PATCH] Support: Provide a function to get the home directory of an arbitrary user

[Aaron Ballman]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> Talked about it with rnk some, I think maybe we can just delete the entire
> windows implementation of this function and have it return false.  These
> directories on Windows are going to be ACLed to the teeth and we won't be
> able to read or even traverse an arbitrary user's home directory anyway, so
> there's kind of no point in doing this.  So, proposal: Unix implementation
> remains the same, Windows implementation is one line that returns false.
>
> Thoughts?

I think the entire API is a broken concept on Windows. Without the
token for the logged on user, the concept of getting their home
directory is broken. So I'm all for making this a UNIX-only piece of
functionality, but I'm not keen on having an exposed cross-platform
API which can never be implemented properly on Windows.

Any way we could make it UNIX-only?

~Aaron