add flAbsPath() as a wrapper to realpath()

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h
index cc1a98eae..ab944071a 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ std::string flNoLink(std::string File);
 std::string flExtension(std::string File);
 std::string flCombine(std::string Dir,std::string File);
 
+/** \brief Takes a file path and returns the absolute path
+ */
+std::string flAbsPath(std::string File);
+
 // simple c++ glob
 std::vector<std::string> Glob(std::string const &pattern, int flags=0);