On 31 July 2013 13:36, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 July 2013 04:12, Dan Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> `readlink -f' is the most common invocation I see in scripts. I'd recommend 
>> making compatibility with at least coreutils' readlink a goal.  See 
>> path_resolution(7) from the Linux man-pages for details on that part.
>
> Agreed. But as Roland Mainz wrote "the work for the { -e, -f, -m
> }-options has a dependency on |fgetcwd()|.". So we have to wait with
> -f until fgetcwd() appears in libast, and until then take readlink(1)
> as is. Good enough for me, and good enough for users coming from
> FreeBSD or busybox.
>

Glenn, is there *now* hope to get readlink(1) integrated into libcmd?
I know ls -l could work too but there are existing consumers (mostly
FreeBSD and busybox) relying on readlink(1) and realpath(1) who could
benefit from this work.

Ced
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Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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