Realpath & context sensitive symlinks
Michael Eager
eager@mvista.com
Thu Sep 27 12:23:00 GMT 2001
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'.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Linux has resolvepath.
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