From 7b0cba02d9266eeb71d3ca095afc25ceb1a79e12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WormHeamer
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2026 20:38:56 -0500
Subject: just use realpath() for normalize_path()

---
 main.c | 35 ++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 6ea99cd..35fffa6 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -1035,35 +1035,12 @@ TxtLoc ins_newline(TxtLoc l) {
 }
 
 static Str normalize_path(Str s) {
-	char pwd[8192];
-	if (s.n > 0 && s.s[0] != '/') {
-		if (!getcwd(pwd, sizeof(pwd))) {
-			return (Str) { 0, 0 };
-		}
-		Str d = str_from_cstr(pwd);
-		str_catc(&d, '/', &e.scratch);
-		str_cat(&d, s, &e.scratch);
-		s = d;
-	}
-	DYNARR(Str) bits = { 0 };
-	while (s.n > 0) {
-		Cut c = str_cut(s, '/');
-		if (str_eql(c.head, S(".."))) {
-			if (bits.n > 0) bits.n--;
-		} else if (str_eql(c.head, S("."))) {
-			/* do nothing */
-		} else if (c.head.n > 0) {
-			DA_APUSH(&bits, &e.scratch, c.head);
-		}
-		s = c.tail;
-	}
-	Str path = S("/");
-	for (u32 i = 0; i < bits.n; i++) {
-		str_cat(&path, bits.v[i], &e.scratch);
-		if (i + 1 < bits.n)
-			str_catc(&path, '/', &e.scratch);
-	}
-	return path;
+	Arena m = e.scratch;
+	char *p = realpath(str_to_cstr(s, &e.scratch), NULL);
+	e.scratch = m;
+	s = str_dup(str_from_cstr(p), &e.scratch);
+	free(p);
+	return s;
 }
 
 static void build_file(Str path, int debugp) {
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