Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:54:20 +0000
From: "Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group"
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Message-ID: <20220324095420.GA29265@localhost>
| Has there been any progress on the possibility of NetBSD changing
| realpath to behave like coreutils wrt -e?
Not yet. I cannot work out exactly what I am supposed to
implement, the coreutils doc is hopeless. Until I know
what that is, I cannot propose it to NetBSD developers.
I am not sure whether "last component not existing" refers to
the final component of the given path not appearing in the
directory to which the earlier path resolves, of if it means
where that component refers toa symlink which does not
name an existing file, or both, or something else.
Further if it is impossible to determine whether the final
component exists or not, or what it is if it can be determined
to exits (no r or x permission, or just no x) is that supposed to
be ignored as well?
If you were to write a standards worthy description of exactly
what is to be required (which will eventually be required
regardless of whether a -E option is needed to enable it on
BSD systems) that would help.
kre
