Relative paths [was: Path transformation]

[mal content]

On 21/08/06, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

Done and done! Just checking to see that nobody had already done
it in the tree somewhere.

cheers,
MC