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From: Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: notmuch-0.16: realpath() compatibility issue; clang visibility
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On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:06:38PM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> The linux namual page (*) has good explanation of this in the BUGS section
> 
> (*) http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/realpath.3.html
> 
> After reading that I think fixing that is not as simple as your previous
> patch does it -- so probably you just have to keep patching your system
> until NetBSD library realpath() is POSIX.1-2008 -compatible.

Ok, so it's not that easy in general. On the other hand, I wonder how
many systems support POSIX.1-2008 realpath() :)

> Note that having users' own patches in their systems is not uncommon
> at all :D

I've filed a bug report in the meantime:
http://gnats.netbsd.org/48497

Thanks for the comments,
 Thomas