mpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe the following script demonstrates that readlink cannot
> always canonicalize paths. It may be possible to create a simpler
> demonstration of the bug, but I could not trivially do so.
Thanks for the report and the nice test case.
I have code that's a wor
mpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> # Create 3 symbolic links inside those directories.
> ln -s a1/a2 /tmp/a0/a2
> ln -s /tmp/a0/a2/b3 /tmp/c0/b3
> ln -s /tmp/a0/a2/a3/a4/a5 /tmp/c0/b3/b4/a5
The problem is that we are crossing the /tmp/a0/a2 symlink twice, so
canonicalize_filename_mode thin
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:42:36AM -0700, mpb wrote:
> I believe the following script demonstrates that readlink cannot
> always canonicalize paths. It may be possible to create a simpler
> demonstration of the bug, but I could not trivially do so.
[...]
> path=/tmp/c0/b3/b4/a5/a6
[...]
> rea
Hi,
I believe the following script demonstrates that readlink cannot
always canonicalize paths. It may be possible to create a simpler
demonstration of the bug, but I could not trivially do so.
Thanks!
-mpb
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#! /bin/bash
# Clean up previous demonstations of
