Re: [Archit Baweja <bighead users sourceforge net>] Dealing with relative paths to local file's URIs

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

> Hi
> 
> I recently converted the File I/O of my HTML Editor to GnomeVFS (it
> previously
> used the standard FILE* API of the standard C lib).
> 
> However for local files, now it only accepts the absolute path to the file.
> Relative paths like some/weird/foo/bar/dir/file or ./filename or
> ../filename
> are no longer accepted, and gnome_vfs_open_uri gives the "Invalid URI"
> error.
> 
> So any suggested way to deal with this shortcoming/problem of GnomeVFS?
> Maybe
> using stat in conjungtion with GnomeVFS or is there a helper API to the
> GnomeVFSURI API?

Why don't you use realpath() to convert relative pathnames to absolute
ones before creating a GnomeVFSURI ? It's pretty standard I believe - so
should be available on all *nices.

Rgds,
Biswa.

> 
> Thanks in advance
> Archit Bawja
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