Couldn't detect the home directory for 'configuration'

[hexDoor]

After some painful debugging with a student, I just wanted to draw attention to a potential race condition(?) which is causing the error in the title.

As part of an introductory programming task, the student had placed a command to execute a MOTD-like C binary in their .bashrc whenever it gets sourced to generate some coloured ASCII art into stdout.

Since the issue immediately goes away upon removing this command and reappears when putting it back in, I reckon the output from the echo Home: ~ is being corrupted with the ASCII art.

vscode-sshfs/src/connection.ts

Line 25 in 3527259

const exec = await toPromise<ClientChannel>(cb => ssh.exec('echo Home: ~', cb));

I don't know if there's an elegant fix for it other than to save output to a file in /tmp and reading from it but that should be a good start.

[SchoofsKelvin]

Fixed in 860f65a and released in v1.23.0 of the extension. If your student installed it from the marketplace, it should auto-update, or at least give you a quick "Update to 1.23.0" button in the extensions tab.

Instead of expecting the output to be of the exact format Home: <path>, it now echoes ::sshfs:home:<path>\n which it'll look for, no longer being affected by whether .bashrc (or similar) echoes anything before/after the "magic pattern".