Re: HOME directory

[Ron Michael Khu <ronkhu@ntsp.nec.co.jp>]

Ooops... inapplicable solution...
scratch it...


Ron Michael Khu wrote:

> I dont know what specific system calls are used for retreiving the 
> current user or home dir(if there are any).
> But perhaps u can make use of the getenv() function to retrieve the 
> value of $HOME and $USER
> (it may not work on some shells, though, didnt test it)
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> HIToC wrote:
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>>> 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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