Relative paths [was: Path transformation]

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, 2006-Aug-21 16:05:33 +0100, mal content wrote:
>I have another favour to ask: Is there a function that can
>take two absolute paths and generate a relative path, from
>source to destination?

I don't think there's any such function.  My suggestion is to roll
your own, based on realpath(3) by replacing the getcwd() with the
first path and adding enough '../' to the second path to reach a
common directory (or root) from the first path.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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