>>>>> "Wilhelm" == Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> writes:

Wilhelm> It creates a path name of /~ExistingDirectory and then fumbles trying
Wilhelm> to read it.  Is this something that should be expected to work, or is
Wilhelm> ~ just a trick of the shell?

Yes, ~ has always been a userspace feature.  Never a kernel feature.
If you get all the way to mkdir(2) or open(2) with a ~, it literally
means a tilde char in a pathname.

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