Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/7] Add virFileAbsPath() utility

Paolo Bonzini wrote: [Mon Oct 05 2009, 04:54:27AM EDT] > On 10/04/2009 09:28 PM, Amy Griffis wrote: > >Add a utility to ensure an absolute path for a potentially realtive path. > > Would it make sense for your usage to resolve symbolic links at the > same time? If so, you can use the canonicalize-lgpl gnulib module, > which portably provides the following function. > > /* Return a malloc'd string containing the canonical absolute name of > the named file. If any file name component does not exist or is a > symlink to a nonexistent file, return NULL. A canonical name does > not contain any `.', `..' components nor any repeated file name > separators ('/') or symlinks. */ > char *canonicalize_file_name (const char *); In this case we don't need to resolve symlinks because the following open() will handle them. I suppose it could be useful to a future consumer, but I'm inclined to keep it as it is.