Re: Dealing with relative paths to local file's URIs

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Archit Baweja wrote:

> From: Archit Baweja <bighead users sourceforge net>
> Subject: Dealing with relative paths to local file's URIs
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> Hi
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks in advance
> Archit Bawja

You should be aware that relative uri's are resolved relative to _your
home dir_, NOT to the current dir. And yes, think that's a bug...

Kind regards,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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