Re: lib/55361: realpath(3) does not resolve magic symlinks

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/55361; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/55361: realpath(3) does not resolve magic symlinks
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:55:38 +0300

 On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:05:00PM +0000, kardel%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 > >Fix:
 > 	- put a warning/bug into realpath(3) manual about not coping with magiclinks
 > 	- fix realpath(3) to pick up sysctl.generic.magiclinks and do
 >           the respective replacements if needed.
 
 In addition, it would be worthwhile to add a unit/regression/consistency
 test to ../tests/lib/libc/gen/t_realpath, i.e. to at least document it also
 in terms of code.
 
 - Jukka