Robert Elz wrote, on 25 Feb 2022: > > | Does it have the same last-component-need-not-exist behaviour as the > | GNU coreutils default, or is it just a wrapper round realpath(3)? > > Just a wrapper. The substance of the thing is an 8 line loop, the > rest (about 60 lines total, ie: another 50+, not counting the boilerplate > copyright/licence comments at the start) is the standard stuff - blank lines, > includes, declarations, the getopt() loop for the 1 option (-q) supported, and > a usage() function.
Would you (or whoever maintains realpath for NetBSD) be willing to add a -E option that makes your version behave like the coreutils default? Then POSIX could specify it with -e and -E options, and say it is unspecified which is the default. The alternative would be to go back to the original plan of just adding readlink (with the -f option for canonicalisation). > The NetBSD version came from FreeBSD, so unless theirs has been updated > recently, it will be the same. The FreeBSD man page only shows a -q option, so it appears it is still the same. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=realpath&sektion=1 I assume that if NetBSD added -E, FreeBSD would have no problem with picking up that change. -- Geoff Clare <g.cl...@opengroup.org> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
