[cs631apue] Question about ~ translation 2

[sshah83]

Professor,
Thanks for the clarification. Just want to clarify one thing:

the specification (man page) says "~ is translated into that user’s sws 
directory (ie /home/<user>/sws/ )"

So in the examples you provided shouldn't it be :
  /~foo/foo/f     <foo's home directory>/sws/foo/f

thanks
Sonal

On 11/22/2014 3:50 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> zding4 <zding4 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> 
>> There must be a user name followed by `~` like
>>  `server/~username/somefile`
>> Can `~` exist without the user name? like:
>>  `server/~/somefile`
> 
> Neither of these would yield expansion of '~' and both would be literal
> pathnames.  (They'd both also be invalid, since they're missing a
> leading '/'.)
> 
> A few examples:
> 
> URI		absolute path
> ---------------------------------------------
> /               <docroot>/.
> /foo            <docroot>/foo
> /~foo           <foo's home directory>/
> /~foo/foo/f     <foo's home directory>/foo/f
> /foo/~foo/f     <docroot>/foo/~foo/f
> ~foo            400 Bad Request
> /cgi-bin/foo    <cgidir>/foo
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> -Jan
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