[bugs #11812] defaults creates a directory named "/home/me/~/GNUstep"

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Follow-up Comment #1, bugs #11812 (project gnustep):

What version of the GNUstyep base library are you using?



Looking at the CVS source, I can't see how the message -

  2005-02-01 22:33:56.000 defaults[12113] Defaults home '~/GNUstep' did not
exist - created it

can reasonably happen.



The name of the defaults directory is formed by reading .GNUsteprc and either
accepting the directory name found or by replacing a leading '~' with the home
directory of the user (obtained from the unix password file using getpwent()
function).  So to get '~/GNUstep' as the defaults home it looks like the
password file would need to contain '~' as the home directory of the user,

or the string handling would need to be sufficiently broken that it fails to
recognise that the value it read from .GNUsteprc had a leading '~'





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