Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/20/2007 00:10:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/35675; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, juan@xtrarom.org
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Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:07:48 -0500

 On Feb 19, 11:45pm, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
 
 |  > I think it is broken. realpath(3) does not work with it, and programs
 |  > that use readlink to do directory normalization (csh) are broken too.
 |  > Ideally realpath should be a system call, readlink should return the
 |  > expanded path, and there should be another system call to return the
 |  > unexpanded pathname. This way userland programs will work like before.
 |  > 
 |  > christos
 |  
 |  why this has Cc: core@ ?
 
 To get core's opinion on it?
 
 christos