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Re: Getting the current user dir in Carbon




On Nov 15, 2004, at 10:20 PM, OL&L Lists wrote:

I've tried:

UInt8   *userslibPathPOSIX = "./lib";

This depends on the current working directory being set correctly. You can't depend on that unless you set it yourself.


and

UInt8   *userslibPathPOSIX = "~/lib";

The ~ character is expanded by the shell, not by the operating system. That is, if you're in tcsh, and you type ~, then tcsh expands that character out to the user's home directory; but passing that character to a posix API will just interpret it literally and won't expand it.


UInt8   *userslibPathPOSIX = "Users/~/lib";

same as above.

UInt8   *userslibPathPOSIX = "$HOME/lib";

Again, the $HOME syntax is shell syntax, and is only expanded by a command shell. It's not expanded by posix APIs.


-eric

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