On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:26, Loïc Joly <loic.actarus.joly@numericable.fr> wrote:
So, if I understand correctly, there used to be a canonize() function, but since it provided wrong results for corner cases, it was removed. Is that so ?
The notes for 1.31.0 mention the following: "Separation of canonical form and normalized form and a new path member function normalize(). This changes behavior, in that canonical form is now different, but eliminates a subtle bug when symbolic links to directories are present. " Which suggests that is *was* wrong, but got fixed, and the old behaviour was moved into normalize. So I have no idea why it's no longer provided. Actually, it brings up a more critical issue, in that it seems there's no way to "dereference" a symlink... ~ Scott