From e97285d861355ea1d491119002ec513fd1051b21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "shaver%mozilla.org"
 <shaver%mozilla.org@18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:03:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 76968: expand ~/ into NS_OS_HOME_DIR in nsLocalFileUnix.
 r=bzbarsky, sr=blizzard.

git-svn-id: svn://10.0.0.236/trunk@123459 18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43
---
 mozilla/xpcom/io/nsLocalFileUnix.cpp | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsLocalFileUnix.cpp b/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsLocalFileUnix.cpp
index 281545850ac..5a75bf1c208 100644
--- a/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsLocalFileUnix.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsLocalFileUnix.cpp
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
     #include <fabdef.h>
 #endif
 
+#include "nsDirectoryServiceDefs.h"
 #include "nsCRT.h"
 #include "nsCOMPtr.h"
 #include "nsMemory.h"
@@ -260,7 +261,19 @@ nsLocalFile::Clone(nsIFile **file)
 NS_IMETHODIMP
 nsLocalFile::InitWithNativePath(const nsACString &filePath)
 {
-    mPath = filePath;
+    if (Substring(filePath, 0, 2) == NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("~/")) {
+        nsCOMPtr<nsIFile> homeDir;
+        nsCAutoString homePath;
+        if (NS_FAILED(NS_GetSpecialDirectory(NS_OS_HOME_DIR,
+                                             getter_AddRefs(homeDir))) ||
+            NS_FAILED(homeDir->GetNativePath(homePath))) {
+            return NS_ERROR_FAILURE;
+        }
+        
+        mPath = homePath + Substring(filePath, 1, filePath.Length() - 1);
+    } else {
+        mPath = filePath;
+    }
 
     // trim off trailing slashes
     ssize_t len = mPath.Length();