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get the home diectory of the current user unix way

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This one just demonstrates an easy way to get the information via pwuid's. Might not the most elegnt way ut works on every unix I believe.

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  1. string get_home(void)
  2.   {
  3.     /* the passwd struct */
  4.     struct passwd *passwd; 
  5.  
  6.  
  7.     /* we pass the current users UID to the struct variable*/
  8.     passwd = getpwuid ( getuid()); 
  9.  
  10.  
  11.     /* 
  12.        then we pass the UID to pw_name which is a char value
  13.        of the /home/ directory
  14.     */
  15.     string user(passwd->pw_name);
  16.  
  17.  
  18.     /*then we make sure we have the full path + our secret config dir*/
  19.     user = "/home/" + user + "/.mkproject/";
  20.     return user;
  21.   }

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