# Stops PhysFS from trying to get the base directory and user directory because it fails on Emscripten and on game consoles. Instead, we use sane defaults.

--- a/src/physfs.c
+++ b/src/physfs.c
@@ -1226,10 +1226,10 @@ int PHYSFS_init(const char *argv0)
 
     if (!initializeMutexes()) goto initFailed;
 
-    baseDir = calculateBaseDir(argv0);
+    baseDir = "/";
     if (!baseDir) goto initFailed;
 
-    userDir = __PHYSFS_platformCalcUserDir();
+    userDir = "/";
     if (!userDir) goto initFailed;
 
     /* Platform layer is required to append a dirsep. */
@@ -1367,13 +1367,11 @@ static int doDeinit(void)
 
     if (baseDir != NULL)
     {
-        allocator.Free(baseDir);
         baseDir = NULL;
     } /* if */
 
     if (userDir != NULL)
     {
-        allocator.Free(userDir);
         userDir = NULL;
     } /* if */
 
--- a/src/physfs_platform_posix.c
+++ b/src/physfs_platform_posix.c
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ char *__PHYSFS_platformCalcUserDir(void)
         } /* if */
     } /* if */
 
-    if (retval == NULL)
-        retval = getUserDirByUID();
+
+
 
     return retval;
 } /* __PHYSFS_platformCalcUserDir */
--- a/src/physfs_platform_unix.c
+++ b/src/physfs_platform_unix.c
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static char *readSymLink(const char *path)
              break;   /* out of memory. */
          retval = ptr;
 
-         rc = readlink(path, retval, len);
+         rc = -1;
          if (rc == -1)
              break;  /* not a symlink, i/o error, etc. */