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1. Relative path to Absolute path

I'm looking for a C algorithm to convert relative paths to an absolute
path.

For instance, I want to resolve "/usr/bin/X11/../ls" into "/usr/bin/ls."
But I would also like to generally clean up a path as well; eg.
"/usr/bin//ls" to "/usr/bin/ls," and so on.

Years ago I saw an algorithm to do this, posted here, but I have since
lost the darn thing.

Thanks for any ideas,
RH

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