In the first if case, virGetUserEnt() isn't necessary so don't bother calling it before determining we need it. --- Found this trying to get libvirtd running happily on my Mac OS X machine for qemu. Unfortunately it appears virGetUserEnt() is always failing on Mac OS X (getpwuid_r() returns 0 each time) because we are requesting info on a different high value UIDs each time (32xxx). That's another issue entirely but this fix allows me to ignore that and test other fixes on my Mac. --- src/util/virutil.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virutil.c b/src/util/virutil.c index c5246bc..6fa0212e 100644 --- a/src/util/virutil.c +++ b/src/util/virutil.c @@ -759,12 +759,13 @@ static char *virGetXDGDirectory(const char *xdgenvname, const char *xdgdefdir) { const char *path = getenv(xdgenvname); char *ret = NULL; - char *home = virGetUserEnt(geteuid(), VIR_USER_ENT_DIRECTORY); + char *home = NULL; if (path && path[0]) { if (virAsprintf(&ret, "%s/libvirt", path) < 0) goto no_memory; } else { + home = virGetUserEnt(geteuid(), VIR_USER_ENT_DIRECTORY); if (virAsprintf(&ret, "%s/%s/libvirt", home, xdgdefdir) < 0) goto no_memory; }