[ruby-core:77218] [Ruby trunk Feature#12695] File.expand_path should resolve ~/ using /etc/passwd when HOME is not set
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2016-09-08 07:43:33 UTC
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Issue #12695 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/trunk...nobu:feature/12695-homedir
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Feature #12695: File.expand_path should resolve ~/ using /etc/passwd when HOME is not set
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12695#change-60444
* Author: M奪rten Svantesson
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee:
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I would expect a call like File.expand_path('~/.ssh/known_hosts') to work even though HOME is not set.
A reason this is important to fix is that libraries (in my use case Net::SSH) do calls like File.expand_path('~/.ssh/known_hosts'), but this will often fail when the code is run in a unix service, since HOME often isn't set then.
I considered reporting this as a bug, but the current behaviour is actually documented.
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