-Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a violation of the specification of abs_path and I should report it to [ALTLinux](bugs.altlinux.org) (the distro)? --Ivan Z.
+Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a violation of the specification of abs_path and I should report it to [ALTLinux](http://bugs.altlinux.org) (the distro)? --Ivan Z.
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+> That is not entirely clear to me from the documentation. It doesn't
+> say the path has to exist, but doesn't say it cannot either. --[[Joey]]