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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2002 02:27:29 -0500
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pwd -L option
Message-ID:  <20020204022729.D6496@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020204110944.A20748@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:09:44AM %2B1100
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Tim J. Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> > This isn't quite right yet.  realpath(1) should never call getopt().
> > It expects no options, so `realpath -L' should return a valid path
> > ending with `/-L'.
> 
> Conceptually pwd and realpath have something in common, but their
> implementations don't. I don't agree with having realpath built in to
> pwd. There's probably not much I can do about that, though.

Agreed; realpath(1) should be broken out into its own source file.
I'll add it to my TODO list.

> Here's another attempt at a patch.

Committed (with a few minor modifications), thanks!

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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