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Before the 5.10 release, we were working on implementing an interface to
realpath() on VMS.
We discovered that the VMS behavior for non-existant paths was different
than on other platforms.
To get a fair sampling, could this test be run on a number of different
platforms to see what the consensus on the proper behavior should be.
perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('foo/non-existant.file')"
perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('/foo/non-existant.file')"
perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('non-existant.file')"
On VMS, this this routine is doing syntax only lookup. What I am
looking at doing is implementing it so that it actually does a lookup of
the file.
On UNIX, the foo/non-existant.file returns nothing, but the other two
return the same as the input.
The routines on VMS to do a realpath input will only work on existing
files, so I need to know the expected / intended behavior for
non-existent files.
-John
wb8tyw@qsl.net
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