Make sure our default path exists (for Linux and Mac)

I'm not sure if this could ever turn into an issue on Windows - but on
Linux and Mac this is an easy and safe thing to do and it avoids a
situation where we try to save the picture hashes without having this
directory.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/linux.c b/linux.c
index d4131c7ea..6133c262d 100644
--- a/linux.c
+++ b/linux.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "dive.h"
 #include "display.h"
 #include "membuffer.h"
+#include "qthelperfromc.h"
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
@@ -63,6 +64,8 @@ static const char *system_default_path_append(const char *append)
 	memset(buffer, 0, len);
 	strcat(buffer, home);
 	strcat(buffer, path);
+	// make sure this path exists
+	subsurface_mkdir(buffer);
 	if (append) {
 		strcat(buffer, "/");
 		strcat(buffer, append);
diff --git a/macos.c b/macos.c
index aa2be4b3b..ece7c83a1 100644
--- a/macos.c
+++ b/macos.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ static const char *system_default_path_append(const char *append)
 	memset(buffer, 0, len);
 	strcat(buffer, home);
 	strcat(buffer, path);
+	// make sure this path exists
+	subsurface_mkdir(buffer);
 	if (append) {
 		strcat(buffer, "/");
 		strcat(buffer, append);