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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:59:16 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Re: sh-utils: need interface to realpath()
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:26:01PM -0500, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> >>   cygpath -w {cygwin-path-to-symlink}
> >
> >Thank you for your reply.
> >
> >The cygpath program does do the cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path() part,
> >but it does not do the more interesting realpath() expansion.  That is,
> >it doesn't expand symlinks.
> 
> Have you looked at the source code for 'realpath()' and
> 'cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path()'.  They are almost identical, i.e.,
> both should translate symbolic links.
> 
> And, guess what?  I actually tried cygpath just to verify what it does.
> It does translate symolic links.

I would not have even suggested it, unless I had gone and tested it
myself to verify that YES, it does translate symbolic links.  I did this
BEFORE recommending its use for this purpose.

--Chuck

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