[racket-dev] Symlink trouble

Matthew Flatt wrote at 04/17/2013 10:39 AM:
> It would be great if we could normalize every path
> to a canonical form, but path normalization in general seems to
> intractable due to the possibilities of soft links, hard links,
> multiple mount points, case-sensitivity choices, and probably other
> twists that I'm forgetting.

Agreed intractable, and agreed with your approach.

Just FYI for anyone who Googles this in the future and wants a limited 
but tractable pretty-good path canonicalization for their application 
(at least on Unix-y filesystems)... "canonicalize-path" from the 
following library might be good enough: 
http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-path-misc/  (I wrote this for 
"scan-mediafiles" in "http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-mediafile/", and 
put it in a separate PLaneT package because I've needed such a procedure 
from time to time.)

Neil V.