Re: “doveadm mailbox” command fails with UTF-8 mailboxes

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

On 2019-03-12 19:17, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Well, I suppose it depends on definitions.. But I'm not calling ~/ relative paths, because it expands to an absolute path. The problem is using paths like "mail/" where it depends on the current chdir.

Thank you for clearing this up.

IMO the ~ is still a relative path until it has been expanded to an absolute
path. Depending on the framework/API/code, expansion might not even work.
A path mail/ could also be expanded to an absolute path, so I don't see a
difference there. It's just that the output of getcwd might not be as
predictable, that's all.

But I agree, it's a matter of definition. In that case, I'd kindly ask you to
state in the documentation that ~ is not considered a relative path.

If one wants to get very pedantic, ~ is neither an absolute, nor a relative
path. But I'm not here to be a smartass.

Thanks again for clearing this up for me.

Cheers,
   K. C.

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