Perhaps build a configurable option to use canonicalize_file_name if it exists, and fall back on realpath if it doesn't... realpath is supposed to be safe if you use necessary precautions...
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:45 +0100, Michael Jung wrote:
Hi Gerald,
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 16:25, you wrote:
The following patches to dlls/shell32/shfldr_unixfs.c break FreeBSD and other non-GNU platforms:
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The reason is that canonicalize_file_name() is not found during linking.
The man page for this function states "The function is a GNU extension", so this clearly kills portability. :-(
We could fall back to "realpath", if "canonicalize_file_name" is not available. However the man page on "realpath" states: "Never use this function. It is broken by design"
Do you know of a function on BSD, which can be applied here? If all else fails, we'll have to re-implement path-canonicalization. But I would prefer to use a library function.
Bye,