On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 18:32:25 CEST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:52:58PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > The latter is a glibc extension that's not available on other > > operating systems, notably FreeBSD. > > > > So far we have worked around the issue through gnulib, but that > > makes it difficult to use mocking in our test suite, so just > > drop it in favor of the portable alternative. > > Sigh, unfortunately realpath() has its own portability problems > in that passing NULL as second arg was a glibc invention, which > is why we switched from realpath() to canonicalize_file_name() > in the first place !
It was, but then this behaviour was standardized in POSIX 2007: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/realpath.html > So I wonder if this actually works on OS-X, Mingw and FreeBSD, > or whether you didn't see the bug because it is mocked in the > tests ? Most probably because they implement the realpath(.., NULL) semantics, as described by POSIX. -- Pino Toscano
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