Expand ~ in path options from the config file (#8055)

The shell expands ~ in command-line arguments, but values read from
config.yaml were passed to path.resolve as-is, so
`user-data-dir: ~/.config/code-server-data` resolved to
`<cwd>/~/.config/code-server-data`.

src/node/cli.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import * as crypto from "crypto"
 import { promises as fs } from "fs"
 import { load } from "js-yaml"
 import * as path from "path"
-import { generateCertificate, generatePassword, paths, splitOnFirstEquals } from "./util"
+import { expandTilde, generateCertificate, generatePassword, paths, splitOnFirstEquals } from "./util"
 import { EditorSessionManagerClient } from "./vscodeSocket"
 
 export enum Feature {
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ export const parse = (
       }
 
       if (option.path) {
-        value = path.resolve(value)
+        value = path.resolve(expandTilde(value))
       }
 
       switch (option.type) {

src/node/util.ts

@@ -511,3 +511,18 @@ export function splitOnFirstEquals(str: string): [string, string | undefined] {
   const split = str.split(/=(.+)?/, 2)
   return [split[0], split[1]]
 }
+
+/**
+ * Expand a leading `~` to the home directory.  The shell does this for
+ * command-line arguments but values from the config file are not expanded.
+ * `~user` forms are left alone.
+ */
+export function expandTilde(p: string): string {
+  if (p === "~") {
+    return os.homedir()
+  }
+  if (p.startsWith("~/") || p.startsWith(`~${path.sep}`)) {
+    return path.join(os.homedir(), p.slice(2))
+  }
+  return p
+}