[gollem] relative paths

[kevin mcgowan]

This change ( to support relative paths ) means we can do one of two 
things to support tilde expansion:

     1.  in manager.php, detect arguments to changedir that begin with 
tilde and expand tilde ( would look almost identical to Chuck's 
relative paths fix )
     2.  in getNativePath, detect the case where the last '/' in $path 
is followed immediately by a tilde and replace the tilde ( and 
everything to the left of it ) with the path from getpwnam

I'm happy to write either or both for review, but do you have a 
preference?  Certainly the former is easier and cleaner, but I feel 
like the latter is more theoretically sound.

kevin

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 02:55  PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Liam Hoekenga <liamr at umich.edu>:
>
>> Anyways.. We should probably use the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant in
>> manager.php instead of a forward slash.. it being platform specific 
>> and
>> all.  Try what I've attached.
>
> I decided not to do this for several reasons. One, it could result in a
> windows server that's talking to a unix FTP server generating bad 
> paths.
> Two, PHP on windows handles / just fine in paths. And third, this would
> mean users would have to know what kind of server they were talking 
> to...
> easier, and safer all around, to just standardize on /, I think.
>
> -chuck
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