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,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, xtraeme@netbsd.org,
	juan@xtrarom.org
Cc: core@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:41:57 -0500

 On Feb 18, 11:04am, xtraeme@netbsd.org (xtraeme@netbsd.org) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
 
 | Synopsis: magiclinks implementation broken
 | 
 | State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 | State-Changed-By: xtraeme@netbsd.org
 | State-Changed-When: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:04:13 +0000
 | State-Changed-Why:
 | Nobody thinks it's broken, so close it. I'll re-open
 | another PR about perusertmp.
 
 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