Re: Get login name and/or path to home directory of current user?

In article <1360pjueho17k0d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 SM Ryan <wyrmwif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Don Bruder <dakidd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> # (Call me a throwback, or whatever, but I *HATE* the hassle of trying
to 
> # deal with CFString stuff - particularly since I have almost zero 
> # expectation that this code will ever want to run on a machine that 
> # speaks anything other than plain old ASCII English)
> 
> If it's any comfort, the kernel only sees a byte string with a zero
> byte terminator and '/' as a directory separator.

That's not strictly true.  Take a look at vfs_lookup.c:

<http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.9.ppc/xnu-792.17.14/bs
d/vfs/vfs_lookup.c>

It does all sorts of things, such as handling ".." (and other odd 
treatment for specially placed '.'), as well as letting the specific 
file system determine what in a path name is part of a component.  For a 
mac file system, this includes case insensitivity, which means that the 
file system need to understand how the file name is encoded (in order to 
compare characters) - and this would be UTF8.