[Explab-devel] [ explab-Bugs-726931 ] contractPath bad $HOME replacement

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Bugs item #726931, was opened at 2003-04-24 16:48
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Category: labrun/rerun/schedule/mex
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jorrit Wiersma (jwiersma)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: contractPath bad $HOME replacement

Initial Comment:
When I run labrun my current.log contains this mysterious 
line:

Current dir:   /usr~/tmp/sorting

I have tracked down the reason to the following: on my 
system (which happens to be FreeBSD) the home 
directories are placed on the /usr partition and a soft link 
points from /home to /usr/home.

This means that the absolute path of my home directory is 
/usr/home/wiersma
but the contents of my $HOME variable is /home/wiersma.

Now, when labutils.py tries to determine the current working 
directory it replaces `/home/wiersma' by `~'.  Obviously, this 
goes wrong, because it fails to detect the /usr/ in front of it.

Solution:
check whether the path really starts with $HOME (and the 
same goes for replacing curdir with `.').  See the attached 
file for a diff with an example of how to fix it.


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