On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:19:57 +0100
"Tomas Hajny" <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote:
> On 26 Mar 14, at 23:05, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:47:06 +0100 (CET)
> > Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > >[...]
> > > The compiler does not do anything special: it determines its current
> > > working directory using the RTL, meaning it gets the resolved current
> > > working directory.
> >
> > I described the situation from a user's pov.
> > Somewhere it should be documented.
> >
> > BTW, is there already a RTL function to resolve a file name?
> > Using SetCurrentDir is not thread safe.
>
> Is there any problem with ExpandFileName, or do you mean something
> different by "resolving a file name"?
There many ways to resolve a file name. ;)
I just tried: ExpandFilename('/tmp/link') returns '/tmp/link'.
It does not resolve symlinks.
Mattias
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