Re: How to resolve an IFS path?

[Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the correction.

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> hi Loyd,
>
> > If I have a path name such as 'blah', the OS assumes the base directory
> is
> > my home, so is resolved to '/loydg/blah'.
>
> Wrong.  It doesn't prepend your home directory, it prepends your current
> working directory.
>
> > 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?
>
> Sort of. I'd probably use the chdir() API, followed by the getcwd() API.