Re: cvs has problems using LockDir when CVSROOT holds a symlink

[Larry Jones]

Mark D. Baushke writes:
> 
> For 1.11.x, I think putting expand_directory() as a static char * into
> root.c is good enough. I doubt we will be expanding functionality to
> need this in the stable release of cvs.
>
> For 1.12.x, it might be reasonable to use the GNULIB version of
> canonicalize_file_name() by adding a lib/canonicalize.c file that gets
> built if the function does not exist on the target platform.

That all sounds reasonable to me.

-Larry Jones

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