Carlos MartÃn Nieto <cmn@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On mar, 2011-03-15 at 12:59 +0100, Carlos MartÃn Nieto wrote: >> On lun, 2011-03-14 at 15:58 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> > Carlos MartÃn Nieto <cmn@xxxxxxxx> writes: > [...] >> > >> > > There is however the extra functionality the function offers, namely >> > > resolving links. It might be good to split it into two functions so each >> > > caller can specify what it wants. >> > >> > Probably. >> >> With the changes mentioned earlier, if you want an absolute pathname, >> you'd call absolute_path/make_nonrelative_path and if you want to make >> sure you have the real path of the target file, you'd use real_path just >> as you'd use realpath on a sane system, with > > ... a comment on the functions and maybe some documentation in > Documentation/techncal, as it doesn't seem to exist yet. We probably should involve Nguyán in this thread as his fingers are everywhere on the codepaths related to setup. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html