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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:39:36 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: sh-utils: need interface to realpath()
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In-Reply-To: <200010312126.e9VLQ6P03421@stay.intouchsys.com>; from gildea@intouchsys.com on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:26:01PM -0500

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.

cgf

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