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List:       freebsd-standards
Subject:    Re: pwd -L option
From:       Mike Barcroft <mike () FreeBSD ! ORG>
Date:       2002-02-04 7:27:29
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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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