On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 08:34:50PM +0200, Casper.Dik@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've looked through earlier SunOS versions and I didn't find > it n SunOS 3.5 but I did find it in SunOS 4.1.1. > So if i ever happened in SunOS it may happened in SunOS 4.0. Guy Harris wrote (1992-01-17): : Unfortunately, "realpath()" is *not* present in BSD, as of 4.3-reno; : I think it first showed up in SunOS 4.0, and was then picked up by other : systems, such as System V Release 4. That seems to define the history. SunOS 4.0 -> SVr4 -> Solaris 2.0. Concerning man pages: old man pages (for a derived version, cf. http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/man/html.S-osr5/realpath.S-osr5.html ) document realpath as sometimes returning a relative path. Later man pages leave the old text but prefix it by a new paragraph stating that an absolute path is returned. This yields confusing versions like the SunOS 5.9 one given in http://www.s-gms.ms.edus.si/cgi-bin/man-cgi?realpath+3C . Still later man pages remove all mention of relative paths (or comment it out, as Apple did). Andries -- 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
