Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/02/2007 07:00:04
The following reply was made to PR kern/35675; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/35675 (magiclinks implementation broken)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 07:53:55 +0100

 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:55:02AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/35675; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >  
 >  I am looking for something like solaris' resolvepath(2) which can be
 >  used to implement the rest of realpath(3) in userland.
 
 Actually, a minor change to the way namei() handles relative symbolic links,
 and a caller that requests that cn_pnbuf not be discarded, would
 do all the work for ~zero cost.
 
 	David
 
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