Re: Patch: use GNU readlink --canonicalize for file-truename when available

[Michael Albinus]

yary <address@hidden> writes:

> For what it's worth- since we have a perl dependency, perl has a
> "realpath" function that follows symlinks & canonicalizes the path.
> It's in the Cwd module which is in perl's standard distribution.
>
> perl -e "use Cwd 'realpath';print realpath '/foo/bar/'"
>
> will do it. see http://perldoc.perl.org/Cwd.html

Thanks for the suggestion! I've added it in Tramp CVS.

Best regards, Michael.