Realpath & context sensitive symlinks

Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
Thu Sep 27 11:57:00 GMT 2001


> 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'.



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