[Chicken-users] Posix realpath

2012-04-01 Thread Matt Welland
A suggestion ... Please consider adding realpath to posix. If I understand correctly realpath is a specified part of posix and thus would quite naturally fit into the posix unit. I think it is a very handy routine and I use it extensively. Then again, perhaps most sane environments don't have the

Re: [Chicken-users] Posix realpath

2012-04-01 Thread John Cowan
Matt Welland scripsit: Please consider adding realpath to posix. If I understand correctly realpath is a specified part of posix and thus would quite naturally fit into the posix unit. I agree; having it is a Good Thing, and it's quite portable as well as being part of POSIX.1-2001 and

Re: [Chicken-users] Posix realpath

2012-04-01 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Matt Welland wrote: Note that normalize-path is not the same as realpath and that although realpath would be nice to have calling the system realpath works just fine and so this is a suggestion and not a request What is the system realpath? Jim

Re: [Chicken-users] Posix realpath

2012-04-01 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote: On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Matt Welland wrote: Note that normalize-path is not the same as realpath and that although realpath would be nice to have calling the system realpath works just fine and so this is a suggestion and not a request

Re: [Chicken-users] Posix realpath

2012-04-01 Thread Jim Ursetto
In case it helps, I've added resolve-pathname to the posix-extras egg in version 0.1.2. On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote: On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote: On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Matt Welland wrote: Note that normalize-path is not the same as realpath