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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:34:09PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I think that means the function won't do what it's designed to do,
> right?  So in that case we should test if readlink accepts -f and if it
> doesn't, then return immediately.  However, that may not be a trivial
> test.  How about something like

/bin/realpath on FreeBSD does follow symlinks.