How to call System.getProperty("user.home") from ABCL

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:02 AM Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 6/17/17 10:12, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
> > Well.  Looks like a bug in ABCL USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME to me.
>

This is not an ABCL bug.  Thanks to Olof-Joachim's instructions:

CL-USER> (jstatic "getProperty" "java.lang.System" "user.home")
"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\config\\systemprofile"

in accordance to the documentation.  I now need to figure out why Java and
ABCL think that "user.home" is
"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\config\\systemprofile".  It may be something in the
computer setup that was modified last week by our IT.

PS - I never thought it was a bug, but wanted to dig a bit deeper into my
JVM environment.



> ABCL's [USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME][1] quite clearly directly uses the value
> of 'user.home' Java system property.
>
> [1]:
>
> https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/blob/master/src/org/armedbear/lisp/Pathname.java#L1572
>
> From [Section 2.2 of the manual][manual]:
>
> The user’s home directory is determined by the value of the JVM system
> property 'user.home'. This value may or may not correspond to the value
> of the HOME system environment variable, at the discretion of the JVM
> implementation that ABCL finds itself hosted upon.
>
> [manual]: http://www.abcl.org/releases/1.5.0/abcl-1.5.0.pdf
>
> I don't see that the current behavior is a bug in ABCL, but rather the
> result of the JVM implementation that you are running.
>
> If y'all see this is a bug, how would you have us "fix" it?
>
> --
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> is nothing to compare to it now."
>
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