In the very early code path where `dll_crt0_1 ()` calls
`user_shared->initialize ()`, the Cygwin runtime calls `internal_pwsid ()`
to initialize the user name in preparation for reading the `fstab` file.
In case `db_home: env` is defined in `/etc/nsswitch.conf`, we need to
look at the environment variable `HOME` and use it, if set.
When all of this happens, though, the `pinfo_init ()` function has had no
chance to run yet (and therefore, `environ_init ()`). At this stage,
therefore, `getenv ()`'s `findenv_func ()` call still finds `getearly ()`
and we get the _verbatim_ value of `HOME`. That is, the Windows form.
But we need the "POSIX" form.
To add insult to injury, later calls to `getpwuid (getuid ())` will
receive a cached version of the home directory via
`cygheap->pg.pwd_cache.win.find_user ()` thanks to the first
`internal_pwsid ()` call caching the result via
`add_user_from_cygserver ()`, read: we will never receive the converted
`HOME` but always the Windows variant.
So, contrary to the assumptions made in
27376c60a9 (Allow deriving the
current user's home directory via the HOME variable, 2023-03-28), we
cannot assume that `getenv ("HOME")` returned a "POSIX" path.
This is a real problem. Even setting aside that common callers of
`getpwuid ()` (such as OpenSSH) are unable to handle Windows paths in the
`pw_dir` attribute, the Windows path never makes it back to the caller
unscathed. The value returned from `fetch_home_env ()` is not actually
used as-is. Instead, the `fetch_account_from_windows ()` method uses it
to write a pseudo `/etc/passwd`-formatted line that is _then_ parsed via
the `pwdgrp::parse_passwd ()` method which sees no problem with
misinterpreting the colon after the drive letter as a field separator of
that `/etc/passwd`-formatted line, and instead of a Windows path, we now
have a mere drive letter.
Let's detect when the `HOME` value is still in Windows format in
`fetch_home_env ()`, and convert it in that case.
For good measure, interpret this "Windows format" not only to include
absolute paths with drive prefixes, but also UNC paths.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>