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Since applications are in general <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> written
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to deal with these situations it was considered better to make
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return the real home directory for the user. If applications
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want to pay attention to <code class="envar">HOME</code>, they can do:
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<div class="informalexample"><pre class="programlisting">
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const char *homedir = g_getenv ("HOME");