[haiku-development] Re: BSD vs. POSIX realpath()
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:43:59 +0200
On 2009-07-15 at 11:41:11 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> I recently noticed that our realpath() did not comply to the POSIX
> standard, and fixed that.
> However, the BSD version of realpath() does not fail if only the last
> path component is not accessible. While it's very simple to check if
> the file really exists (just an additional [l]stat()), the other check
> (if at least the parent exists) is at least slightly more involved).
>
> The question is, should we follow BSD style, or POSIX here?
In doubt I'd go with POSIX.
CU, Ingo
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