[erlang-questions] The reason for filename:join/1 behaviour?

[Max Lapshin]

To make it easier to read your /etc/passwd:

filename:join(DocRoot, clean_from_double_dot(UserPath)).


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitriid@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> What is the reason behind filename:join/1's behavior? From the docs:
>
> Joins a list of file name Components with directory separators. If one of
> the elements of Components includes an absolute path, for example "/xxx",
> the preceding elements, if any, are removed from the result.
>
> That is,
> > filename:join(["/usr", "/local"]).
> "/local"
> > filename:join(["/usr", "local"]).
> "/usr/local"
>
>
> Why? :)
>
>
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