From ab1bdc1429df72551e790bdbba11d57c93de62a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Borodin <aborodin@vmail.ru>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 14:45:48 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] src/main.c (main): create MC home directory (~/.mc) if
 absent.

---
 src/main.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index db4c1c805..7ed08e741 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -2125,6 +2125,9 @@ handle_args (int argc, char *argv[])
 int
 main (int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    struct stat s;
+    char *mc_dir;
+
     /* We had LC_CTYPE before, LC_ALL includs LC_TYPE as well */
     setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
     bindtextdomain ("mc", LOCALEDIR);
@@ -2192,6 +2195,16 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
     init_curses ();
 
+    /* create home directory */
+    /* do it after the screen library initialization to show the error message */
+    mc_dir = concat_dir_and_file (home_dir, MC_BASE);
+    canonicalize_pathname (mc_dir);
+    if ((stat (mc_dir, &s) != 0) && (errno == ENOENT)
+	&& mkdir (mc_dir, 0755) != 0)
+	message (D_ERROR, _("Warning"),
+		    _("Cannot create %s directory"), mc_dir);
+    g_free (mc_dir);
+
     init_xterm_support ();
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SUBSHELL_SUPPORT