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