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On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:45:21 +0300
Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:

Hey Timo,

> Given the above, I would vote realpath() to have fallback code. It's
> far more widely used, and would fix several chroot usage scenarios.

I second this, given I use realpath() on webservers to get canonical
pathnames. Of course, those webservers are in a chroot environment.
It also took me quite a while to find out what the problem was
(and why the program froze at realpath()).

Cheers

FRIGN

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