Pádraig Brady wrote in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-12/msg00237.html>:
> This is for use in a proposed coreutils `realpath` command.
> Specifically by these options:
>
> -L, --logical resolve `..' components before symlinks
> -s, --strip don't expand symlinks
The names of these options don't feel right.
* --strip means making something shorter, but the resulting file name
is not necessarily shorter: After "ln -s . dot",
"realpath dot/dot/foo" will be "/currdir/foo",
"realpath -s dot/dot/foo" will be "/currdir/dot/dot/foo".
How about calling this option 'no-dereference', similar to the
option of 'chown', 'chgrp', 'chcon', 'cp', 'touch'?
Or '--ignore-symlinks'?
* --logical is meant to be the opposite of "physical", right?
How about calling this option --syntactic? Would be more self-
explanatory.
Bruno
