Oct. 4, 2009
2:56 a.m.
"Wilhelm" == Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu> writes:
Wilhelm> It creates a path name of /~ExistingDirectory and then fumbles trying Wilhelm> to read it. Is this something that should be expected to work, or is Wilhelm> ~ just a trick of the shell? Yes, ~ has always been a userspace feature. Never a kernel feature. If you get all the way to mkdir(2) or open(2) with a ~, it literally means a tilde char in a pathname. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion