How to get the absolute path for a given relative path programmatically in Linux?
absolute-path, c, linux, relative-path
Solution
As Paul mentioned, use `realpath()`. Please note though, that since many file systems in Linux support hard links, any given directory can have a number of different absolute paths.
Problem
How to get the absolute path for a given relative path programmatically in Linux? Incase of Windows we have the `_fullpath()` API. In other words, I mean what is analogous API to `_fullpath` of Windows in Linux?