The following reply was made to PR lib/30943; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
To: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: lib/30943: realpath() behaviour changed with nonexistant relative
 path
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:46:31 +0300

 Mark Davies wrote:
 
 > So the minimal fix would be to restore the traditional *BSD behavior which the 
 > following patch would do:
 
 Since the standard says nothing about allowing last element to be
 non-existant, let's adopt martin@'s suggestion and dump the traditional
 behavior. I'll commit my ``revision 1.39'' with your man-page update.
 
 -e.
 
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 Elad Efrat
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