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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:13:29 +1000
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
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To: Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>, tect@mindrot.org
Subject: Re: realpath(1)
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Han Boetes wrote:
> After a discussion on #openbsd on irc.freenode.net a frontend for
> realpath(3) was requested.
>
> I did some creative cutting and pasting and had the code reviewed
> on #openbsd
>
> FreeBSD and Debian also have a binary for this, though my binary
> is based on dirname(1). The manpage is based on realpath(3) and
> dirname(1).

Maybe this would be better as a mode for dirname(1), based on argv[0]?
Like what we do for stat(1), ksh(1), etc. No extra copy of crt0 that
way.

-d