Re: [PATCH] config: Expand ~ to $HOME

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+To: Bijan Chokoufe <bijan@chokoufe.com>, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Expand ~ to $HOME\r
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+From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>\r
+Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 21:11:39 +0100\r
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+On Wed, May 11 2016, Bijan Chokoufe wrote:\r
+\r
+> so what would be the spec for handling ~user?\r
+\r
+Look up "user" in the password file and replace "~user" with their home\r
+directory. See getpwnam().\r
+\r
+> As Tomi pointed out ~foo will point to different folders if set by user\r
+> 'foo' or by user 'bar'.\r
+\r
+~foo means "the home directory of user foo", independent of who is using\r
+it, so it will be the same when used by both user foo and user bar.\r
+\r
+> To what folder should it point and where do I get this information?\r
+>\r
+> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> schrieb am Di., 10. Mai 2016 um 10:22 Uhr:\r
+>\r
+>> On Mon, May 09 2016, Bijan Chokoufe Nejad wrote:\r
+>>\r
+>> >> ~user is ~ in case you're 'user' -- except that now that I think of it\r
+>> >> ~user could read home directory from /etc/passwd and not using $HOME.\r
+>> >> If you're 'eve', then ~alice should definitely be different than ~\r
+>> >\r
+>> > OK I see. I never used ~user instead of ~ and don't see any advantage in\r
+>> using\r
+>> > ~user but good to know it's there.\r
+>>\r
+>> A solution that supports ~ but not ~user seems incomplete.\r
+>>\r