From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 11 3:16:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from home.pl (home.pl [195.205.230.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CE3114F00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 03:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@home.pl) Received: from haven.home.net.pl (HELO haven) (195.205.230.2) by home.pl with SMTP; 11 Aug 1999 10:16:23 -0000 Message-ID: <017f01bee3e2$86c62840$02e6cdc3@haven.home.net.pl> From: "Steven Jurczyk" To: Subject: how fast get real/absolute path of file Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:16:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How fast get real / absolute path of specified file. I try use readlink, = but this slow (for path /home/web/docs/index.htm must be done 4 or more = (if this path have symlinks) readlink's - for /home, /home/web, = /home/web/docs and /home/web/docs/index.htm). Is any faster/simpler = method for getting absolute path of file? Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message