The following reply was made to PR kern/35675; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: christos@zoulas.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, xtraeme@netbsd.org,
	juan@xtrarom.org, core@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
Date: Mon,  2 Apr 2007 07:27:38 +0900 (JST)

 > 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.
 
 are you talking about PR/30705?
 
 > 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
 
 can you explain why realpath should be a system call?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi