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  3. September 2010

Re: How to resolve an IFS path?

Loyd Goodbar wrote:
If I have a path name such as 'blah', the OS assumes the base
directory is my home, so is resolved to '/loydg/blah'. Or, if a path
is '/home/httpd/../otherfiles', it is resolved to '/home/otherfiles'.
Is there an API that will return this resolved path, so I can
programmatically determine if the path should be processed? For
example, I might not want to process '/QSYS.LIB', but a user could
specify '../../../../QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB'. I looked in the UNIX-type
APIs for the IFS but nothing jumped out as suitable. On V5R4.

Thanks,
Loyd

If you want to write some code with PASE for i: there is the realpath()
API:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/realpath.htm

:)


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