Re: [PATCH] batch mode and cmd-line option treatment

On 17.07.2009, at 23:41, Urs Janßen wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:48:15PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>> - I removed write_config_file() after create_mail_save_dirs() in
>> main.c. (no changes during startup -> no need to write the config  
>> file)
>
> IIRC the create_mail_save_dirs() was some kind of 'first usage' check,
> with the new code some files in $TIN_HOMEDIR/.tin are created but  
> tinrc is
> not
>
> testcase:
>
> TIN_HOMEDIR=/tmp tin -vZ
> ls -la /tmp/.tin

tin uses ~/.tin/tinrc and ~/.tin/attributes regardless of TIN_HOMEDIR  
(that's my guess after looking at the timestamps).

The directory handling seems to be broken somewhere. Try setting  
TIN_HOMEDIR to a nonexistent dir.

I will take a closer look at this to see what happens exactly.

Dennis