Extracted from Pike v7.3 release 45 at 2002-06-04.
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Method Stdio.expand_symlinks()

Method expand_symlinks

string|int(0..0) Stdio.expand_symlinks(string path)

Description

Unwinds all symlinks along the directory trail path, returning a path with no symlink components or 0, in case path does not exist, for instance because one of its links pointed to a nonexistent file or if there was a symlink loop. The returned path is also canonicized/simplified, removing "//", "/./" and the like.