> On Oct 26, 2026, at 7:12 PM, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good point. Since (at least as far as I recall) we don't know why > anyone (putatively) wants the original path, we don't know whether this > matters. But for most likely purposes I would expect it would.
It’s useful for having “relocatable” (in the file system) applications, so that a program could find its resources without having to bake in path prefixes as compile time. -- thorpej
