kern/128933: [libc] realpath(3) does not follow SUS specification for a NULL/empty path

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

The following reply was made to PR kern/128933; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Arjan van Leeuwen" <freebsd-maintainer at opera.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, vega.james at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/128933: [libc] realpath(3) does not follow SUS specification
 for a NULL/empty path
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:13:33 +0200

 We ran into this recently. This is a real problem in portable code, since  
 it's not possible to assume that realpath() will notify the caller if a  
 file doesn't exist, even though it should according to the specification.
 
 Arjan
 
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