On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I'm not wedded to the name, but attached is a proof-of-concept of a
routine
which collapses updirs. This is a solution to the problem whether or
not
canonpath() should collapse them. Let the user decide.
Personally I think we should recommend (as it does now in the
canonpath() docs) that the user use Cwd::realpath() when they want to
collapse foo/.. in paths. If we provide a logical-only collapse()
method, we know it's buggy (in the sense that it sometimes will point
the user to a different file) before we even release it.
I'm all for providing some kind of pass-through to realpath() in
File::Spec, though.
-Ken
