[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36677] canonicalize_file_name: inconsistent behavior for non-existing files

[Rik]

Update of bug #36677 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Philip,

You have indeed found an inconsistency.  Check the source code for file-ops.cc
in the liboctave directory.  The code has a number of #idefs.  We first try to
use the gnulib module, then we try to use the RESOLVEPATH module, then we look
to see whether were on a Win32 platform.

For your specific application, would make_absolute_filename() work?  It
appears to work correctly for a non-existent file in the pwd, in a relative
directory location '../', and in an absolute location '/tmp/'.  The testing
was done on a Linux platform.

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