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

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, Bijan Chokoufe <bijan@chokoufe.com>\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Expand ~ to $HOME\r
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+On Wed, May 11 2016, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:\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
+\r
+3 things more if you're cooking new patch\r
+\r
+1) use git send-email -- then it is easier to apply.\r
+\r
+2) on talloc() use config instead of NULL to lessen unfreed memory\r
+   at program exit\r
+\r
+3) talloc_free() old config->database_path and set it to point the new\r
+   value.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+\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