Re: [Dev-luatex] platform specific functionality

T T wrote:

On 15 March 2010 12:03, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Oh, alright then. Patch applied (#3494)

Thanks. One more patch for your consideration for something I needed recently: getting absolute, canonical file paths. In principle this can be implemented in pure Lua with the current lfs module, but getting all the corner cases right (e.g. foo/bar/./../baz) is not so easy. Perhaps having a convenience function for this is not such a bad idea (and using proper system APIs will guarantee that the result is correct).

There is no Unix counterpart in the patch, because I didn't know how to implement it (with a call to realpath?) and I would have no way to test it anyway.

My man page for realpath(3) says: BUGS: Avoid using this function. Its is broken by design But it does not offer an alternate solution. Looks like it would need private code, which is not a lot of fun to write (unless there is something in kpathsea?).