[gmail] Re: realpath bug

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 10 February 2007, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> it happens so on glibc realpath() returns resolved link and
> uclibc returns NULL but fills lfile with resolved link.

no ... glibc and uClibc both return NULL for broken symlinks

> Patch which replaces realpath with readlink, anyone?

this wont be terribly robust as what if /dev/ is readonly and /dev/log is a 
relative symlink ... you'd have to make sure you chroot(/dev/) first
-mike
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