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From: Benjamin Machuletz <bmachuletz@mnetworx.de>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HOME directory
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:43:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504251843.19843.bmachuletz@mnetworx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504251826.36321.hitoc_mail@yahoo.it>

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hi,

if you rename your home-directory, you have to change your /etc/passwd to 
point your user entry to the new home-directory.

benjamin,


On Monday 25 April 2005 18:27, HIToC wrote:
> Hello all!
>  I am writing a piece of code that makes files, open directories in my
> HOME directory. All worked well until I changed the name of my HOME dir.
> To make the code portable I tried with use of '~' character:
>
>  const char* filename = "~/file.txt";
>  ofstream  my_file(filename, ios::out);
>
> but this solution does not work.
> Have you any suggestion to find the path of the current home directory or
> the current user name?
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-25 16:27 HOME directory HIToC
     [not found] ` <426D1DC8.2080900@hq.ntsp.nec.co.jp>
2005-04-25 16:42   ` Ron Michael Khu
2005-04-25 16:46     ` Ron Michael Khu
2005-04-25 16:43 ` Benjamin Machuletz [this message]
2005-04-25 16:59 ` Richard Nairn
2005-04-25 17:05 ` Steve Graegert
     [not found]   ` <426D38D3.5060901@tlen.pl>
     [not found]     ` <6a00c8d505042511529bd72c8@mail.gmail.com>
2005-04-26 11:26       ` Adam Dyga
2005-04-25 17:06 ` Glynn Clements
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-25 16:50 Luciano Moreira - ht
2005-04-28 12:28 HIToC

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