Re: crash if HOME is unset

[Timothy Sample]

Hi Simon,

Simon Josefsson writes:

> I'm experimenting with Gash to get a minimalistic Guix container
> experience [1],

Interesting.  I’m not sure I understand why, but I’ll be happy for any
bug reports that come out of your experiments.  :)

> and noticed that it crashes if HOME is unset:
>
> The code seems to be gash.scm:
>
>               ((isatty? (current-input-port))
>                (let* ((HOME (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.gash_history"))
>                       (thunk (lambda ()

There’s the issue.

> How about this patch?

I took a more comprehensive approach with commit
ec9f0313190e380687da387b4207469a0a0a8cd8.

Thanks a bunch for this.  Let me know if find any other issues.


-- Tim