>On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:34:01AM +0200, Casper.Dik@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> >The note about Solaris came from the 4.4BSD-Lite man page realpath.3 >> >(dated 1994-02-16) which says: >> >> Yes, it noticed that it exists in both BSD and Linux manual pages; >> I asssumed it was copied by one or the other. Yours address was the >> first I could find to get it remoed. > >I am not sure something needs to be removed. One might write >"early versions of" when something is no longer true in recent versions. > >Andries > > >[In case you wonder whether this variation ever existed: >I have no old sources, at least not easily accessible, >but where some man pages straightforwardly state Right; but it certainly doesn't relate to *Solaris* possibly to SunOS 4.x; but not Solaris. >"The realpath() function derives, from the pathname pointed to >by file_name, an absolute pathname that names the same file, >whose resolution does not involve ".", "..", or symbolic links." > >, there are older SunOS man pages that say Which version? The realpath() version in Solaris 2.0 derives from SVr4 and it certainly creates an absolute pathname. >"realpath() resolves all links, symbolic links, and references to ``.'' >and ``..'' in file_name and stores the path in resolved_name. >It can handle both relative and absolute path names: > * For absolute path names and the relative names whose resolved name >cannot be expressed relatively (for example, ../../reldir), it returns >the resolved absolute name. > * For the other relative path names, it returns the resolved relative name." > >Such descriptions strongly suggest that the documented version >of realpath need not return an absolute pathname in all cases.] In SunOS 4.x possibly but not in any Solaris 2.x release; I have access to all of the Slaris 2.x releases. Casper -- 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
