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

In article <uce-3FC9F6.20474101062007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <1360q767cgc9i72@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  SM Ryan <wyrmwif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > # > # contains whatever information is needed to find the given
object; the 
> > # > # internal structure of an FSRef is likely to vary based on the
volume 
> > # > # format, and may vary based on the particular object being
identified."
> > # > 
> > # > This is Unix: what identifies an object is the path.
> > # 
> > # No. Flat out wrong. A path identifies a _location_. It does not
identify 
> > # an object, and that distinction is precisely why paths fall down in
some 
> > # cir***stances.
> > 
> > Whatever you want to define as an object,
> 
> What I'd like to define as an object is an actual entity in the file 
> system.
> 
> > the fact remains that MacOSX is Unix,
> 
> For some definitions of Unix.
> 
> > which means the kernel is using paths and file descriptors.
> 
> Another "obvious" assumption?
> 
> > The purpose of FSRef is to make a Unix machine look
> > like a System 6 era machine.
> 
> For some definitions of look like.
> 
> > You can remain compatiable to dead operating system, or you can become
> > compatiable with a current operating system.
> 
> Seems to me FSRefs are quite compatible with a current operating system.

<Ducks, covers up head, looks for someplace clear to run away>

Yeesh, I didn't realize that I was going to start a holy war.

(Insert "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" reference here)

Sorry I asked!

I'll go back to playing with my FSRefs now. It's safer there, I'm 
thinking...

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