Re: Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-16 Thread Mike Abdullah
How about using -fileReferenceURL on everything? That won't give you a normalized *path* as such, but should give you consistent URLs for identifying individual files Mike. Sent from my iPhone On 14 Nov 2013, at 03:27 am, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: In my iOS app, I create a

Re: Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-16 Thread Charles Srstka
On Nov 16, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: How about using -fileReferenceURL on everything? That won't give you a normalized *path* as such, but should give you consistent URLs for identifying individual files Mike. You could also use

Re: Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-16 Thread Rick Mann
The thing I'm trying to accomplish is to iterate all the files in a subtree, and then compute the last few parts of the path from that top-level directory. I get the top-level directory by asking for the documents directory, and it gives me /var/.../Documents/ (to which I append Foo). I then

Re: Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-16 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Rick Mann wrote: The thing I'm trying to accomplish is to iterate all the files in a subtree, and then compute the last few parts of the path from that top-level directory. I get the top-level directory by asking for the documents directory, and it gives me

Re: Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-16 Thread Rick Mann
On Nov 16, 2013, at 21:31 , Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Rick Mann wrote: The thing I'm trying to accomplish is to iterate all the files in a subtree, and then compute the last few parts of the path from that top-level directory. I get the

Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-13 Thread Rick Mann
In my iOS app, I create a directory in the user’s Documents directory, and then later iterate the contents of that directory. The problem is that on iOS, that directory has a path like “/var/stuff/Documents/Dir”, and when I iterate it, the resulting contents have paths like

Re: Normalizing a path containing a symlink

2013-11-13 Thread Maxthon Chan
Alternatively, syscall readlink(2) and some C hack may come to help. On Nov 14, 2013, at 11:27, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: In my iOS app, I create a directory in the user’s Documents directory, and then later iterate the contents of that directory. The problem is that on iOS,