filesystem: remove canonicalizePath() (#185)

canonicalizePath() is now only used by an error path in
getMountFromLink(), which we can make use getDeviceName() instead.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/filesystem/path.go b/filesystem/path.go
index 376daf0..b9b403d 100644
--- a/filesystem/path.go
+++ b/filesystem/path.go
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
 
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 
@@ -41,22 +40,6 @@ func OpenFileOverridingUmask(name string, flag int, perm os.FileMode) (*os.File,
 // We only check the unix permissions and the sticky bit
 const permMask = os.ModeSticky | os.ModePerm
 
-// canonicalizePath turns path into an absolute path without symlinks.
-func canonicalizePath(path string) (string, error) {
-	path, err := filepath.Abs(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	path, err = filepath.EvalSymlinks(path)
-
-	// Get a better error if we have an invalid path
-	if pathErr, ok := err.(*os.PathError); ok {
-		err = errors.Wrap(pathErr.Err, pathErr.Path)
-	}
-
-	return path, err
-}
-
 // loggedStat runs os.Stat, but it logs the error if stat returns any error
 // other than nil or IsNotExist.
 func loggedStat(name string) (os.FileInfo, error) {