Re: Problems with HOME on w32

[Jason Rumney]

Seems like a bug in the library if the following causes a buffer 
overflow when .emacs exists:

struct stat ignored;
stat ("C:/.emacs", &ignored);


Lennart Borgman wrote:
> There is a message about a problem with HOME on w32 on 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32 :
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> The symptom is “Error (initialization): User has no home directory” 
> and no .emacs file loaded.
>
> A quick kook at HOME env. var shows:
>
>    (getenv "HOME") -> "Š,ûw"
>
> I traced Emacs22 file access with NTFILMON
It would be more useful to use gdb.