Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] submodules: add helper functions to determine presence of submodules
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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- Dec 2, 2016, 21:31 UTC
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On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> So is there a reason why the library function realpath() can't be used? >>> From a cursory look at its man page it seems to do the symlink >>> resolution. >>> >>> -- >>> Brandon Williams >> >> I believe it uses the same method and thus wouldn't actually resolve >> the issue. But I'm not really 100% sure on this. >> >> Thanks, >> Jake > > I just reviewed 2 libc implementations (glibc and an Android libc) and > both of them > do not use chdir internally, but use readlink and compose the path 'manually' > c.f. http://osxr.org:8080/glibc/source/stdlib/canonicalize.c?v=glibc-2.13
Interesting. Would this be portable to Windows, though?
Thanks, Jake