in reply to Missing from File::Spec(?)
I believe the functions you note (specifically rel2abs()) will do this. They are in the man pages for File::Spec, but, like you, they don't exist in the modules installed on my system. They are either new with 5.6 or are just a new feature of File::Spec that I don't have.
print rel2abs("../../../../../etc/./passwd"); # "/etc/passwd"
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