For some reason, many of the realpath() manual pages (BSD, Linux) have words to the following effect: Solaris may return a relative pathname when the path argument is relative. I have looked through the Solaris source files and have found no such bug reported or fixed; the implementation from at least 1997 and beyond certainly doesn't have this problem and even the older versions prepend getcwd() or chdir() to dirname and run getcwd() in that directory. Solaris does have a system call which may return relative pathnames: resolvepath(). I believe that that function may have confused earlier writers of realpath() manual pages and this was later copied without verifying that fact. realpath() existed in Solaris 2.0 as it came from SVr4.0 and even at that time i t returned the full, non-relative path. Casper Dik (Solaris Engineering) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
