[EXTERNAL] Re: Strange behavior when executing programs

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 12 15:41:00 GMT 2022


On Dec 12 15:22, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> Sorry about the earlier typos
> 
> > (and, hence, I suppose for the purposes of the OP).
> 
> and, hence, I suppose, *would work* for the purposes of the OP.
> 
> > Since realpath is supposed to resolve all symlinks,
> 
> I meant by default (the -P behavior).  If -s was asked, then the output would be corect.

Options are only available in realpath(1).  As for under the hood,
realpath(3) has no options so it can only return one of the
alternatives.


Corinna


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