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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