I am writing a tool that works like a directory list (ls, dir, etc) and I'd like to report something akin to the absolute path for each of the files. However, I don't want to see mountpoint information and I don't want symlinks resolved.

IE:
According to the file system, my working dir is here:
/base/path/to/a/
if I do a directory listing, I see:
file.txt

If you use the cwd module and check the abs_path of the file, you get
/mountpoint/base/path/linked/to/a/file.txt

(/base is a mountpoint; plus there is a symlink here /base/path/to -> /base/path/linked/to)

Now, of course, I may not actually be inside the directory that I'd like to work with; I might want to call this from "/base", with "path/to/a" as an argument. Can anyone suggest a way for me to report the "unreal" absolute path that would look like this?
/some/base/path/to/a/file.txt

Thanks.

In reply to unreal absolute path by kgimpel

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