Could you show us the actual function call that you use this path
with? I haven't actually done much POSIX via Carbon, but perhaps
those who have will be better able to help you when they see this
extra information. If you type "cd ~" into Terminal,
it will take you to the Home directory, so I think the issue must be
elsewhere now. For instance, the expansion of paths is done by
the shell, not by the individual POSIX programs that use them.
Therefore, if the method you are using forks a UNIX process directly
without going through a shell, you may need to use a different launch
method or find a way to generate the path before you make the
call.
Ian Krieg
My code basically looks like this,
"lib" being the dir inside the current user's dir that I
want to delete:
UInt8*userslibPathPOSIX
= "./lib";
I've tried:
UInt8*userslibPathPOSIX
= "./lib";
and
UInt8*userslibPathPOSIX
= "~/lib";
and
UInt8*userslibPathPOSIX
= "Users/~/lib";
and
UInt8*userslibPathPOSIX
= "$HOME/lib";
None of them work.
Michael
Orbital Launch & Lift,
Inc.
http://www.orbitallaunch.com
At 1:16 AM -0500 11/16/04, Ian Krieg
wrote:
I believe it is "~".
"." is the current working directory, which might be the
home directory. It might be guaranteed by Apple, I don't know,
but I know that tilde will always be the home directory, even if other
POSIX commands have selected a different working directory.
Ian Krieg
Isn't the current user directory just
specified as "."?
Ian
This may be a newbie question, but how do
I specify the current user directory using a POSIX-style pathname in
Carbon? I need to delete a directory directly inside the current user
directory so I need to make a fixed path as a POSIX pathname string
and then convert it to an FSRef.
Thanks,
Michael
Orbital Launch & List, Inc.
http://www.orbitallaunch.com
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