[tpm] How determine the real directory path

[Indy Singh]

Thanks, that worked.

Indy Singh
IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com

From: Fulko Hew 
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:59 AM
To: Indy Singh 
Cc: toronto-pm at pm.org 
Subject: Re: [tpm] How determine the real directory path




On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Indy Singh <indy at indigostar.com> wrote:

  Hello all,

  I want to copy files from one directory to another where the directory paths are something like:
  /a/b/c to /x/y/z

  I need to detect if the two directory paths are identical after symbolic links are resolved, in order to skip the file copy.

  Using File::Copy::copy sets $! to ‘No such file or directory’

  Using cp from a shell prompt gives an error like:
  cp: `/a/b/c/foo.txt' and `/x/y/z/foo.txt' are the same file

  Anyone have an idea how to resolve this?

Can you use stat() to get the inodes of both directories to see if they are the same?


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