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RE: "realpath" behavior
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:13:06 -0500
- Subject: RE: "realpath" behavior
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:08:46AM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > Looking for someone to confirm if this is expected
> behavior, or a bug:
> >
> > With standard mount points:
> >
> > c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> > c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> >
> > * Calling realpath() to resolve "/bin" results in "/usr/bin".
> > * Likewise, calling realpath() to resolve "/lib" results
> in "/usr/lib".
> >
> > If anything, I'd expect the opposite behavior - ie,
> realpath("/usr/bin")
> > to return "/bin", etc.
>
> Wrong mailing list. Try cygwin@cygwin.com.
My apologies. It was related to a porting issue, so I defaulted
to cygwin-apps.
That said - the question remains: is this a bug, or a valid (but
unexpected) implementation of realpath?
-Samrobb
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