_fixpath

Syntax

#include <sys/stat.h>

void _fixpath(const char *in_path, char *out_path);

Description

This function canonicalizes the input path in_path and stores the result in the buffer pointed to by out_path.

The path is fixed by removing consecutive and trailing slashes, making the path absolute if it's relative, removing "." components, collapsing ".." components, adding a drive specifier if needed, and converting all slashes to '/'. DOS-style 8+3 names of directories which are part of the pathname, as well as its final filename part, are returned lower-cased in out_path, but long filenames are left intact. See section _preserve_fncase, for more details on letter-case conversions in filenames.

Return Value

None.

Example

char oldpath[100], newpath[100];
scanf(oldpath);
_fixpath(oldpath, newpath);
printf("that really is %s\n", newpath);

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