Re: canonicalize-lgpl bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 9/10/2009 12:21 PM:
> Hmm, on thinking about this more, there are probably existing Linux machines 
> where glibc canonicalize_file_name is broken (fails to detect ENOTDIR 
> on "file/"), and therefore we need to replace it.

I have confirmed this.  I'm working on respinning my patch series to
replace canonicalize_file_name on Linux machines where it is broken.

>  Additionally, it would be
> nice to declare canonicalize_file_name in <stdlib.h>.  Also, now that POSIX 
> requires realpath(name,NULL) to malloc() its results as an absolute path, it 
> would be nice to have a realpath module that replaces broken versions 
> (Solaris 
> sometimes gives relative paths, and not all existing realpath implementations 
> malloc).

The current state of my series now does this.

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