path.resolve depends on cwd

[ry]

Many applications still want path resolving functionality without this dependency.

Ref #685
Ref #643

[iuioiua]

I think we should fix this before Std. Lib. reaching stability. Do we have any ideas on how this can be solved?

[kt3k]

path.resolve can be used for getting cwd:

import { resolve, dirname } from "https://deno.land/[email protected]/path/mod.ts";
const resolved = resolve("foo");
console.log(resolved);
const cwd = dirname(resolved);
console.log(cwd);

What is the expected permission requirement for path.resolve?

[iuioiua]

IIUC it's for std/path functions, not to require any permissions. Right now, it requires --allow-read permissions. #685 had the interesting idea of having a fs.resolvePath(), which does require --allow-read permissions, but expectedly so.

[kt3k]

Note: Deno runtime is updating Deno.cwd() and it requires no permission in the future version (2.2.0) denoland/deno#27192

[kt3k]

Closing as Deno.cwd() no longer requires 'read' permission

ref: denoland/deno#27192