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