The following reply was made to PR kern/36385; 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
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36385: systrace and non-existent files
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:14:34 -0400

 On May 24,  2:45pm, mxp@dynalabs.de (mxp@dynalabs.de) wrote:
 -- Subject: kern/36385: systrace and non-existent files
 
 
 This seems to be caused by changes in realpath(3). Some versions of NetBSD
 erroneously succeed even if the last component of the path does not exist.
 This behavior is unexpected and breaks 3rd party programs such as KDE, so
 the issue seems to have been fixed at head. Unfortunately the old and
 broken behavior is relied upon by systrace and fixing the realpath issue
 breaks handling of non existant files in systrace. I think that the systrace
 code should be fixed.
 
 christos