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In my doc/tor.1 in my git checkout, I have

       DataDirectory DIR
           Store working data in DIR (Default: /usr/local/var/lib/tor)

Apparently the underlying code (in tor.1.txt) is

[[DataDirectory]] **DataDirectory** __DIR__::
    Store working data in DIR (Default: @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor)

It looks like if DataDirectory remains unset (which is the default), on Windows you get

get_windows_conf_root()

whereas on other platforms, you get

    d = "~/.tor";

and then it's only if you're running as root that you get

     fn = tor_strdup(LOCALSTATEDIR PATH_SEPARATOR "tor");

But I admit that all of this is confusing, because we have functions like find_torrc_filename() and get_default_conf_file() and get_torrc_fname() so it's hard to say for sure.