From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:30:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707160029120.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <f158199e0707151427h52da3e38rae3be6e44e27e918@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Bradford Smith wrote:

> If I were to fix this, I'd be tempted to use realpath(3) to follow the 
> symlink, but I don't think it's very reliably available cross-platform.  
> Certainly, it isn't used anywhere in the current git code.  Can anyone 
> suggest a more portable fix?

I'd use readlink(2) and test for EINVAL to fall back to the current 
behaviour.

Hth,
Dscho