Trying to determine a cross-platform way of determining if a file path a user provides in a config file is absolute for the machine they are running the Perl code on. I'm not quite sure how to interpret the File::Spec documentation: 

file_name_is_absolute
Takes as its argument a path, and returns true if it is an absolute pa
+th.
    $is_absolute = File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute( $path );
This does not consult the local filesystem on Unix, Win32, OS/2, or Ma
+c OS (Classic). It does consult the working environment for VMS (see 
+file_name_is_absolute in File::Spec::VMS).

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What does it mean when it says it does not "consult" the local filesystem? Will this function do what I need?

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