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From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: bin/12244: realpath() fails when there is no permission to read the WD 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/12244; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: bin/12244: realpath() fails when there is no permission to read the WD 
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:06:59 +0000

 Adding to the audit trail:
 
 In message <20020121021534.A853@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>, "Jose M. Alcaide" writes:
 >On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:02:15AM -0800, iedowse@FreeBSD.org wrote:
 >> Synopsis: realpath() fails when there is no permission to read the WD
 >> 
 >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 >> State-Changed-By: iedowse
 >> State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 20 10:01:13 PST 2002
 >> State-Changed-Why: 
 >> 
 >> Is this problem still present in more recent releases?
 >> 
 >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=12244
 >
 >Yes, it is. Realpath(3) continues using open()/fchdir() for
 >saving/restoring the current directory. I think that the getwd()/chdir()
 >method should be used as fallback.
 >
 >-- 
 >****** Jose M. Alcaide  //  jose@we.lc.ehu.es  //  jmas@FreeBSD.org ******
 >** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" --  Leonard Brandwein **

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