On 7/26/06, Neil Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The main purpose of canoncialPath is to fix the case on Windows, so "c:\my documents\file.doc" becomes "C:\My Documents\file.doc" if that is the case correct version of the file. I think this function will not actually change the file with relation to the underying file system, so should be race free. (I will document more to make the operation clearer)
Hi Neil, It seems like your canoncialPath function is already in the base package. Look at System.Directory.canonicalizePath. I have added it when I was working on the FilePath module for Cabal. The FilePath abstraction was discussed a number of times and it seems that people prefer an ADT representation instead of plain String. I tend to agree. Maybe such ADT based library can be integrated with some new IO library like the Streams library. Cheers, Krasimir _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
