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Re: Realpath & context sensitive symlinks
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:57:11AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:40:38 -0700
> > From: Michael Eager <eager@mvista.com>
> >
> > Anyone got a solution to this? Or suggestions?
>
> Realpath could invoke the 'resolvepath' system call, if it is available.
> That would be more reliable than the chdir/getcwd hack that you suggested.
>
> This assumes that your kernel has 'resolvepath'. If it doesn't,
> perhaps you could have it added. It does seem to be a better approach.
>
> Solaris 8 realpath uses 'resolvepath'.
I can certainly see it being more elegant, but in what way is it more
reliable?
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