Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/19/2007 19:07:48
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