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

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/30943: realpath() behaviour changed with nonexistant relative path
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:28:11 +0200

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 On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:56:05PM +0000, Elad Efrat wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR lib/30943; it has been noted by GNATS.
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 > 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 rel=
 ative
 >  path
 > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:46:31 +0300
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 >  Mark Davies wrote:
 > =20
 >  > So the minimal fix would be to restore the traditional *BSD behavior w=
 hich the=20
 >  > following patch would do:
 > =20
 >  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.
 
 It *does* say something about last element.  As a matter of fact, there
 is no distinction made between the last one and any other.
 
 The realpath() function shall fail if:
 
 [ENOENT]
     A component of file_name does not name an existing file or file_name
     points to an empty string.
 
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 Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
 "When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
 to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
 KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.
 
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