Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment:

> Well, if we use two different paths based on the libc version, it might not 
> be a good idea, since behaviour can be different in some cases.

Indeed.

> It would be nice to know if some modern platforms have a non-compliant 
> realpath().

Alas, it doesn't seem to hold for OpenBSD:
http://old.nabble.com/Make-realpath(3)-conform-to-SUSv4-td32031895.html

A patch supporting NULL was committed two months ago, which means we
probably can't push this forward.

I've been quite disappointed by POSIX lately...

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