From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: j kalbhenn <jkal@posteo.eu>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: realpath
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:47:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poeikyix.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170604213653.GA13541@sph-desktop.fritz.box> (j. kalbhenn's message of "Sun, 4 Jun 2017 21:36:53 +0000")
j kalbhenn (2017-06-04 21:36 +0000) wrote:
>> Guile provides "readlink". Isn't it the thing you need?
>
> no, i am afraid not. readlink returns the target of a symbolic
> link. realpath resolves all directory references like ".." and "." and
> all symbolic links in a path and returns a path that does not include
> those things.
Oh, I see. There is 'canonicalize-path' that can handle ".." and "."
> i have now implemented my own version of realpath in scheme (could have
> used the ffi probably), but since it is a standard lib function in C and
> guile offers many other posix functions, i thought it would be well
> suited for inclusion.
Yeah, I agree, I also expected to see 'realpath' in Guile :-)
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-05 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-03 17:20 feature request: realpath j kalbhenn
2017-06-04 20:00 ` Alex Kost
2017-06-04 21:36 ` j kalbhenn
2017-06-05 19:47 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2017-06-06 13:33 ` J. Kalbhenn
2017-06-06 17:48 ` Alex Kost
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