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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-04-08 15:33:09 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-04-08 15:33:09 +0200
commit7e295cc94ad55b07c89fc87fb9b2d01a69788c4b (patch)
tree11ffecb08cf9002b941fab5eae28967ca9bc3f01 /basedir
parentb6381cb31953070ba7b641bb6fbdb16758bd8356 (diff)
basedir: clarify that all variables need to be set to absolute paths
As discussed on XDG.
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-rw-r--r--basedir/basedir-spec.xml5
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diff --git a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
index e76673b..03a982b 100644
--- a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
+++ b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+
+ <para>All paths set in these environment variables must be
+ absolute. If an implementation encounters a relative path in any
+ of these variables it should consider the path invalid and ignore
+ it.</para>
</sect1>