On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:57:21PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:
> > Well I posted something to the APR list, and got a reply that someone
> > else is already working on doing it for APR, so I guess I will just
> > leave it for now, and use the APR version once it is committed.
>
> If you want, follow up and see if that person has resources allocated
> to it. If not, you could be the resources. :-)
>
> (Or maybe he's doing it as we speak.)
>
> -K
I guess I should have cross posted so other could see the replies. Here
is what I have so far.
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:49:37 -0800 (PST)
From: rbb@covalent.net
To: Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net>
cc: dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: Feature request realpath(3) wrapper
Hmmmmm........ This could be very interesting. Let's throw this into the
STATUS file, and see who picks it up. I believe this will also be handled
by Will Rowe's canonical filename stuff, but I would need him to reply to
be absolutely sure.
Ryan
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In doing some work for Subversion, I came accross a need to convert
> relative pathnames to absolute pathnames. Now realpath works under
> Linux, but I am told it is broken under some versions of Solaris
> (although it works for 2.5), and doesn't exist under win32(although
> there is _fullpath). I have no idea about BeOS.
>
> Is this something that anyone on the APR team would like to implement in
> a nice portable fashion?
Ryan Bloom rbb@apache.org
406 29th St.
San Francisco, CA 94131
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And William Rowe replied:
From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
To: "Kevin Pilch-Bisson" <kevin@pilch-bisson.net>, <dev@apr.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request realpath(3) wrapper
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:44:17 -0600
In the works :-)
Finally, I also got this one:
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:40:44 -0600
From: Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>
To: dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: Feature request realpath(3) wrapper
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:38:10PM -0500, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In doing some work for Subversion, I came accross a need to convert
> relative pathnames to absolute pathnames. Now realpath works under
> Linux, but I am told it is broken under some versions of Solaris
> (although it works for 2.5), and doesn't exist under win32(although
> there is _fullpath). I have no idea about BeOS.
Just for the sake of info, it doesn't appear the BeOS provides
anything of this sort at all.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
GnuPG Key:
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key
So for now it looks like it is in good hands, although I think I will
ask William if he needs a hand.
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