Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:33:21 +0100 From: "mal content" <artifact.one@googlemail.com> To: "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Relative paths [was: Path transformation] Message-ID: <8e96a0b90608211733g8e47320y91be86a3c624108b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060821191354.GA729@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <8e96a0b90608210805m561e29e5g41bdd25ff9dfa94c@mail.gmail.com> <20060821191354.GA729@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 21/08/06, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-Aug-21 16:05:33 +0100, mal content wrote: > >I have another favour to ask: Is there a function that can > >take two absolute paths and generate a relative path, from > >source to destination? > > I don't think there's any such function. My suggestion is to roll > your own, based on realpath(3) by replacing the getcwd() with the > first path and adding enough '../' to the second path to reach a > common directory (or root) from the first path. Done and done! Just checking to see that nobody had already done it in the tree somewhere. cheers, MC
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