realpath() without resolving symlinks?

Question

I already read about realpath(), but is there a function that I can pass a base directory and a filename that would give me the following result without resolvi

Answer 1

I use Hardex's solution:

#include 

char * normalizePath(char* pwd, const char * src, char* res) {
    size_t res_len;
    size_t src_len = strlen(src);

    const char * ptr = src;
    const char * end = &src[src_len];
    const char * next;

    if (src_len == 0 || src[0] != '/') {
        // relative path
        size_t pwd_len;

        pwd_len = strlen(pwd);
        memcpy(res, pwd, pwd_len);
        res_len = pwd_len;
    } else {
        res_len = 0;
    }

    for (ptr = src; ptr < end; ptr=next+1) {
        size_t len;
        next = (char*)memchr(ptr, '/', end-ptr);
        if (next == NULL) {
            next = end;
        }
        len = next-ptr;
        switch(len) {
        case 2:
            if (ptr[0] == '.' && ptr[1] == '.') {
                const char * slash = (char*)memrchr(res, '/', res_len);
                if (slash != NULL) {
                    res_len = slash - res;
                }
                continue;
            }
            break;
        case 1:
            if (ptr[0] == '.') {
                continue;
            }
            break;
        case 0:
            continue;
        }

        if (res_len != 1)
            res[res_len++] = '/';

        memcpy(&res[res_len], ptr, len);
        res_len += len;
    }

    if (res_len == 0) {
        res[res_len++] = '/';
    }
    res[res_len] = '\0';
    return res;
}

Example:

#include 

int main(){
    char path[FILENAME_MAX+1];
    printf("\n%s\n",normalizePath((char*)"/usr/share/local/apps",(char*)"./../../../",path));
    return 0;
}

Output:

/usr

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Note:

1. The first argument is the directory path (absolute path) relative to which other paths will be normalized. It is generally the absolute path of the current directory.
2. The second argument is the string to be normalized without resolving symlinks.
3. The third argument is a char* which must have the required memory/capacity to contain the normalized path.