file link -relative

From: Rene Meyer (rene.meyer_at_sturmit.de)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:10:51 +0200

Hallo,

do we need a "file link -relative" option or do i missing something.
I would like to create a relative link like:
  rene@digedag:~> touch a
  rene@digedag:~> ln -s a b
  rene@digedag:~> ls -l b
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 rene site 1 2004-07-30 12:59 b -> a
but tcl gives me:
  rene@digedag:~> tclsh
  % file link -symbolic c a
  a
  % ls -l c
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 rene site 12 2004-07-30 13:00 c -> /home/rene/a
The absolute path is then a problem on mounted directories.

A "file link -relative" option should only supress the call of
"Tcl_FSConvertToPathType()" in the "Tcl_FileObjCmd()" function.
Or is there a other tcl only solution?

Rene

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