[ruby-core:17849] Re: FAILURE of "expand_path"

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:58:42AM +0900, C.E. Thornton wrote:
> Matthew,
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>   Well something is inconsistent  somewhere.
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>   However, the reason this came up was I
> wrote a class to perform a tree scan.  It recursively
> stepped through to directory tree.  It failed when
> it ran across a directory that had a number of directories
> prefixed with a  tilde '~'.=20
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> When you have a dir containing this
>  dir1:
>    ~dira  ~dirb  ~dirc
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>  Then you list the 'files' in a dir and
> then recursively call expand_path on each
> dir you find and agin list the files--
> this failure stops the scan.

Why are you calling File.expand_path on these? The two uses of expand_path =
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familiar with are to expand ~ and to resolve .. and ., neither of which see=
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to apply in this case.

> I want to make it consistent with the way the
> Bash Shell works.
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> mkdir ~dir1   produces "./~dir" NOT "/home/dir"

Only if there's no user named ~dir1.=20

> Am I wrong here?

No, but your patch removes the ~user -> /home/user behavior. A better fix t=
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match the Bourne shell behavior would be to get rid of the "user %s doesn't=
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exist" exception entirely and leave the string unchanged.

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Matthew Boeh