Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

[grischka]

Maybe on your way it cant hurt to checkout window's native idea of 
whats an absolute path: 

char *abspath(const char *in, char *out)
{
  return in && GetFullPathName(in, MAX_PATH, out, NULL) ? out : NULL;
}

Looks simplicistic, but works.

With current directories c:\foo and d:\geez and current drive c:
    $(abspath bar) -> c:\foo\bar
    $(abspath c:bar) -> c:\foo\bar
    $(abspath d:bar) -> d:\geez\bar
    $(abspath \) -> c:\ 


> ... whereas the user _could_ have wanted the current directory when 
> the result of $abspath is _used_
Hm, afaik expansion of relative paths with the "current directory when 
they are used" is a built-in operating system service, so whoever 
wants that would not use $abspath in the first place :P