How to resolve an IFS path? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: How to resolve an IFS path?
From: Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:27:08 -0500
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If I have a path name such as 'blah', the OS assumes the base directory is
my home, so is resolved to '/loydg/blah'. Or, if a path is
'/home/httpd/../otherfiles', it is resolved to '/home/otherfiles'. Is there
an API that will return this resolved path, so I can programmatically
determine if the path should be processed? For example, I might not want to
process '/QSYS.LIB', but a user could specify
'../../../../QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB'. I looked in the UNIX-type APIs for the IFS
but nothing jumped out as suitable. On V5R4.

Thanks,
Loyd

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Follow-Ups:

RE: How to resolve an IFS path? , Dennis Lovelady
RE: How to resolve an IFS path? , Morgan, Paul
Re: How to resolve an IFS path? , Scott Klement

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