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Re: ls -L should say just what file doesn't exist
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: ls -L should say just what file doesn't exist |
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Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:37:03 +0100 |
"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> What about using realpath() ? According to the realpath(3) manpage it
> exists on BSD, Linux, and Solaris and gives out an absolute dereferenced
> path. This could cut down significantly the necessary code.
You're right that there's already code to do that.
In coreutils, it'd be lib/canonicalize.c's canonicalize_file_name function.