Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report

[Alan Cox]

> And I ask, again, why would I want my lynx.cfg to be accessable by
> ~buttles/ ?  Can you even count on everyone's home being the same place on
> a unix box?  NO.  So you can't be sure that ~fred/ is the same as
> /home2/fred/ when you live in /home/buttles/.
> 
> I just don't see why it matters.

GAFC

That is how ~ expansion works on unix. The code I posted handles it right,
it doesn't assume anything about /home or /home2. Try reading a book on
csh or bash and looking at man getpwnam and the posted code.


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