A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1457 ====================================================================== Reported By: steffen Assigned To: ajosey ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1457 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: Under Review Name: Steffen Nurpmeso Organization: User Reference: Section: Vol. 3: Shell and Utilities. Page Number: (page or range of pages) Line Number: (Line or range of lines) Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2021-03-09 21:21 UTC Last Modified: 2022-07-21 11:45 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Add readlink(1) utility ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0005901) kre (reporter) - 2022-07-21 11:45 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1457#c5901 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, wrt the now long deleted note#5701, I totally understand how that could have happened - the combined stat(1)+readlink(1) man page was a total mess, and almost impossible to decipher. At NetBSD we have now split it into two entirely separate pages, stat(1) and readlink(1) - the two (conceptually) are totally unrelated utilities. It just happens that they are the same binary, which looks at argv[0]. readlink (as it exists in BSD) is just stat with a particular set of options (which depends upon the options to readlink) - readlink could as easily have been a script that calls stat - except that for some uses it is used a lot, and adding a sh invocation to every call would be costly. But that note 5701 interpreted that messy man page incorrectly doesn't affect the conclusion to omit readlink -f from the standard. The coreutils readlink -f is (effectively) realpath -E (as specified here) and the BSD one is realpath -e - they are not compatible, and adding more options to readlink to "fix" that would be a sub-optimal solution (what's more, the coreutils version could not be implemented as a call to stat, no matter what options are given stat(1) never returns data about files that don't exist (it would have to invent that, and that's not going to happen.) Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen New Issue 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen Status New => Under Review 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen Assigned To => ajosey 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen Name => Steffen Nurpmeso 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen Section => Vol. 3: Shell and Utilities. 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen Page Number => (page or range of pages) 2021-03-09 21:21 steffen Line Number => (Line or range of lines) 2021-03-10 04:11 emaste Issue Monitored: emaste 2022-02-22 15:58 geoffclare Note Added: 0005700 2022-02-22 16:01 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005700 2022-02-22 16:09 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005700 2022-02-22 16:11 geoffclare Project 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 => 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 2022-02-22 16:13 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005700 2022-02-22 21:39 emaste Note Added: 0005701 2022-02-22 21:41 emaste Note Deleted: 0005701 2022-02-22 22:19 steffen Note Added: 0005702 2022-02-22 22:34 calestyo Issue Monitored: calestyo 2022-02-23 08:32 geoffclare Note Added: 0005703 2022-02-23 13:31 emaste Note Added: 0005704 2022-02-23 13:38 calestyo Note Added: 0005705 2022-02-24 09:28 geoffclare Note Added: 0005706 2022-02-24 09:32 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005700 2022-02-24 09:34 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005700 2022-02-24 09:36 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005703 2022-02-25 21:24 mirabilos Note Added: 0005721 2022-07-21 10:41 geoffclare Note Added: 0005898 2022-07-21 10:42 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005898 2022-07-21 10:45 geoffclare Note Added: 0005899 2022-07-21 10:47 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005899 2022-07-21 10:57 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005898 2022-07-21 11:15 kre Note Added: 0005900 2022-07-21 11:45 kre Note Added: 0005901 ======================================================================
