Re: How to resolve an IFS path?

["Walt Madden" <walterross@xxxxxxxxx>]

Loyd Goodbar wrote:
> 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

If you want to write some code with PASE for i:  there is the realpath() 
API:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/realpath.htm

:)