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Author	pitrou
Recipients	BreamoreBoy, ajaksu2, matejcik, mibanescu, misa, pitrou, pjones, spektrum, vstinner
Date	2011-08-20.23:56:58
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Message-id	<1313884619.39.0.626799511462.issue1298813@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The latest POSIX versions () allow NULL to be passed for the target memory area, meaning that realpath() will allocate as much memory as necessary by itself. This essentially does the same thing as canonicalize_file_name(), but in a standard way rather than by relying on a GNU extension. I suppose that possibility could be checked at configure time. () http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/realpath.html

The latest POSIX versions (*) allow NULL to be passed for the target memory area, meaning that realpath() will allocate as much memory as necessary by itself. This essentially does the same thing as canonicalize_file_name(), but in a standard way rather than by relying on a GNU extension.

I suppose that possibility could be checked at configure time.

(*) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/realpath.html

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