[Issue 9530] std.path should have a function for getting the canonical path to a file or directory

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9530

Vladimir Panteleev <dlang-bugzilla at thecybershadow.net> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Vladimir Panteleev <dlang-bugzilla at thecybershadow.net> ---
This is a request for a realpath wrapper in Phobos, then?

FWIW, I would argue that almost everywhere I've seen a usage of realpath, it
was unnecessary and often even harmful - mainly because I think historically
libc did not provide an easy way to canonicalize a path without resolving
symlinks. But that's probably not a good reason to not provide a D wrapper for
a standard C function.

I'm not sure what to do with Windows, as there is no equivalent for it in
Windows libcs, and Windows implements symlinks (and reparse points in general)
very differently.

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