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Announcing Rust 1.79.0 | Rust Blog (blog.rust-lang.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, as it says in the documentation I linked:

unlike canonicalize absolute does not resolve symlinks and may succeed even if the path does not exist.

Primarily, the latter part is what I want. There's just sometimes situations where a path doesn't exist (yet), but you want to know what it would look like as an absolute path.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In 99% of those cases you would want it to resolve .. components though.

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