Re: Dumb path question

[email protected] (David Cantrell)
Newsgroups perl.macosx
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:48:07PM -0600, Doug McNutt wrote:
> At 20:25 +0000 3/10/09, John Delacour wrote:
> >At 21:10 -0600 9/3/09, Doug McNutt wrote:
> >>At 22:24 -0400 3/9/09, Chris Devers wrote:
> >>>How can a Perl script reliably, portably resolve the path inside which
> >>>it is running?...
> "portable" seems to be the key here.  Modules good for that.

If you look at the code for Cwd, you can see all the contortions it goes
through to be portable.  See also the perl versions/platforms matrix
generated from CPAN-testers data:

http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=PathTools+3.29

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