Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 17:27:47 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> Cc: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3) Message-ID: <20020519172746.GA16770@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020519165639.GL44753@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <20020519100420.GA8356@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020519132159.GI44753@cicely5.cicely.de> <20020519140003.GA19399@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020519153428.GK44753@cicely5.cicely.de> <20020519162710.GA19228@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020519165639.GL44753@cicely5.cicely.de>
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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > I'm ``blindly'' using the only answer we have to a question: how can I get > > an absolute (thus unique) path to an object in the filesystem. > > Forget it - it's not possible with FreeBSD (see below). > I'm just a bit frustrated about all the brokenness with softlink > handling I saw, without noticing that FreeBSD doesn't give you a > chance to do it right. I really doubt there isn't a way to do it right somehow, stuff like this has been around forever. Consider how extensively @sys expansion was relied on by AFS, and so on. You just have to hide the physical path somehow. > > I'm open to alternative ways of doing that, especially as I described > > canonpath(3) above. > > After some digging it seems like it's worse. > getcwd already returns a canonical path on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris. > Only HP-UX returns the accumulated chdir path. > Very dissapointing. Look at getcwd_logical() in pwd.c -- jmallett@FreeBSD.org | C, MIPS, POSIX, UNIX, BSD, IRC Geek. http://www.FreeBSD.org | The Power to Serve Vote for me for FreeBSD core or the cute little bunny gets it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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