The following reply was made to PR lib/30664; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: thorpej@shagadelic.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org,
	tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: lib/30664: realpath and magic symlinks
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:14:34 +0900

 > Perhaps readlink(2) should translate the magic symlink?  But that  
 > would break ls(1).  Perhaps we could add a readlink2(2) that takes a  
 > flags argument, allowing us to specify "raw" or "translated".   
 > readlink(2) would default to "translated", and ls(1) would be changed  
 > to use "raw".
 > 
 > Thoughts?
 
 i think it's a fine idea.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi