But, for lots of applications that can put constraints on the pathnames they need to manipulate, you actually can do it just the way you suggest. And it will work in at least a large number of the cases, just not all of them.
But, for lots of applications that can put constraints on the pathnames they need to manipulate, you actually can do it just the way you suggest. And it will work in at least a large number of the cases, just not all of them.