RE: How to resolve an IFS path?

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The way I have done this is:

Establish the directory name of the file in question (Other unix-style
systems have dirname and basename but they are missing from the APIs list.
Not hard to roll your own if you cannot find it for AIX.)  Once you have dir
name, do a CHDIR to that value.  Then obtain the current directory
('getcwd').  The result will be the resolved name.

Dennis Lovelady
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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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