Re: promised statfs patch

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> GF>  "./foo/../bar/./../bar/baz" ==> "bar/baz"
> GF>  "/foo/../../bar" ==> Return an error, impossible.
> GF>
> GF>This is a nice programming task.  You'll have fun with it. ;-)
> 
> It might be a good idea to write a general function for normalizing
> pathnames and either include it into unx2dos/dos2unx or call it in every
> library function right before the GEMDOS gets called.

It would be a good idea to write a general function for resolving
pathnames, i.e. to replace stuff like ../../foo/bar with an absolute
path. That would be useful to implement chroot() in mintlibs (sort of
such pathname resolver I've added to the mint ftp server).

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