digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 9530] New: std.path should have a function for getting the canonical path to a file or directory
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (26/26) Feb 17 2013 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9530
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (11/11) Feb 18 2013 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9530
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9530 Summary: std.path should have a function for getting the canonical path to a file or directory Product: D Version: D2 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: Phobos AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com ReportedBy: jmdavisProg gmx.com PST --- Take this example from std.path.absolutePath: assert (absolutePath("../file", "/foo/bar") == "/foo/bar/../file"); Note the ../ in the path. absolutePath does note return the canonical path (which is what I would have expected it to do), but even if it's better for absolutePath to not return the canonical path, we still need a function which will do that, and I don't see one in std.path which does. So, I think that either absolutePath should be changed to return the canonical path (which presumably it has a good reason for not doing), or std.path needs a new function which does. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Feb 17 2013
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9530 PST --- Okay, it looks like we already have buildNormalizedPath which does some of what needs to be done for canonicalizing a path (it gets rid of ., .., and / from a path), but it doesn't follow symlinks, so it doesn't actually get a canonical path (every file should have one and only one canonical path). So, this request isn't quite as critical as I was thinking that it was, but we do still need a function for returning the canonical path of a file or directory. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Feb 18 2013