My private problems

FROM : Gerriet M. Denkmann
DATE : Sun Apr 20 10:19:11 2008

I need an absolute path.

So I do:

NSFileManager *fima = [ NSFileManager defaultManager ];
NSString *fileType = [ [ fima fileAttributesAtPath: path 
traverseLink: NO ]; fileType ];    
if ( [ fileType isEqualToString: NSFileTypeSymbolicLink ] )
   path = [ fima pathContentOfSymbolicLinkAtPath: path ];

The problem is: "/tmp" is converted to  "private/tmp" (Note the 
missing slash at the start).

Short of hardcoding a change from "private" to "/private" -
is there some Cocoa (or Carbon or bsd or whatever) way to get "/tmp" 
converted to  "/private/tmp" (with the leading slash) ?
(Same problem exists for /etc and /var).

> ls -l /tmp

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  gerriet  11 Feb  1  2007 /tmp -> private/tmp
But "cd /tmp" does not always do the same as "cd private/tmp".  Why?


Kind regards,

Gerriet.