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Re: Better realpath

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:39:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Better realpath
References: <200806141024.41812.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <umylol0hq.fsf@gnu.org> <200806141614.07742.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <uej6zlrr8.fsf@gnu.org> <g3186d$887$1@ger.gmane.org> <ud4mjl71m.fsf@gnu.org> <20080615032653.GA5214@caradoc.them.org> <uabhmlgvu.fsf@gnu.org> <4859280A.8000006@earthlink.net>

> Most likely libiberty's other customers (read: other GNU components
> :-) ) want consistent behavior, and I'm inclined to think they would
> prefer consistency with each other over consistency with "real"
> realpath.

The goal was consistency across platforms.  Not all platforms *have* a
realpath() function.

References:
- Better realpath
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: Better realpath
  - From: Stan Shebs

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