https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9530
--- Comment #3 from Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Vladimir Panteleev from comment #2) > Fmainly because I think historically libc did not provide an easy > way to canonicalize a path without resolving symlinks. Resolving the symlinks is kind of the point here, because the idea is to have a function that gives you a single path to a file when given different paths to it so that you can know that they're the same file. And if you don't resolve symlinks, you definitely can't do that. I'd never heard of realpath before, but looking at its man page, it looks like it does what I'm talking about. > 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. I really have no idea how Windows symlinks work. So, I have no idea how possible this sort of thing is with Windows symlinks, but the idea it least is to be able to take a path name and get a single, canonical path for it so that you can compare paths and have them be the same for the same file regardless of how that file was originally referred to. Windows may or may not make that possible. --
