[Chicken-janitors] Re: #52: ##sys#expand-home-path bug on OS X

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#52: ##sys#expand-home-path bug on OS X
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 Reporter:  zbigniew        |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  minor           |   Milestone:       
Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.0.x
 Keywords:                  |  
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Comment(by zbigniew):

 OK, I see this is done to support ~user -> /home/user, which can't be done
 reliably without getpwnam(3).

 I would be satisfied with the simple fix of "~" -> (getenv "HOME"), while
 leaving "~user" broken, in ##sys#expand-home-path.  As you probably wish
 to avoid a getpwnam call in library.scm.

 However, the posix unit should really have its own expansion code used by
 change-directory etc., which uses getpwnam / getpwuid for tilde expansion.

 I could produce a patch if you are interested.

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