From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: _canonical_path not working on *BSD
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:18:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <080326091833.ZM17098@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803261604.m2QG41Ke017772@news01.csr.com>
On Mar 26, 4:04pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} Hmm... sorry about all the traffic... actually, it still doesn't
} guarantee to give a canonical path as "readlink -f" does, since it
} doesn't check if the value returned is itself a symbolic link
Using a while-loop in shell code leads to a potentially infinite loop
on a symlink cycle. I think readlink and realpath have some sort of
defense against that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-26 10:44 Baptiste Daroussin
2008-03-26 15:01 ` Debian bugs (Re: _canonical_path not working on *BSD) Bart Schaefer
2008-03-26 15:25 ` Clint Adams
2008-03-26 15:05 ` _canonical_path not working on *BSD Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 15:27 ` Baptiste Daroussin
2008-03-26 15:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 15:51 ` Pea
2008-03-26 15:59 ` Clint Adams
2008-03-26 15:21 ` Pea
2008-03-26 15:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-03-26 15:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 16:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 16:18 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2008-03-26 16:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 16:38 ` Pea
2008-03-26 16:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 17:08 ` Pea
2008-03-26 17:17 ` Baptiste Daroussin
2008-03-27 10:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-27 11:08 ` Pea
2008-03-27 11:25 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-27 12:15 ` PATCH: cd -q (was Re: _canonical_path ...) Peter Stephenson
2008-03-27 12:25 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-03-27 12:35 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-03-27 12:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-27 12:56 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-03-27 18:45 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-28 8:16 ` Pea
2008-03-28 11:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-03-28 14:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-27 12:31 ` _canonical_path not working on *BSD Pea
2008-03-27 15:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-03-27 18:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-28 1:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-03-28 7:51 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-03-28 10:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-26 16:25 ` Pea
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