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Hspasta

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[SOVLED]Proper creation of directory for program in C

How do you create a directory for a program at $HOME like .mpd?

Is this done in the program or through make? I was looking at the 'mkdir' function provided by 'sys/stat.h', but I could never for some reason have the directory have correct.

Last edited by Hspasta (2012-01-11 02:37:37)

ewaller

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Re: [SOVLED]Proper creation of directory for program in C

Most programs I have seen do it from with in the program.  What happens when a user wants to start from scratch with your program and rm's the directory?

I looked at some of my code and realized I was writing in Qt which has some nice classes dedicated to this function.  This is not a new problem, I might suggest you look around and see if there exist libraries you might use, rather than re-invent the wheel.

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stqn

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Re: [SOVLED]Proper creation of directory for program in C

See platform_GetConfigDir().

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Hspasta

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Re: [SOVLED]Proper creation of directory for program in C

Thanks for the help!