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As reported by Casper Dik:
For some reason, many of the realpath() manual pages (BSD, Linux)
have words to the following effect:
Solaris may return a relative pathname when the path argument
is relative.
I have looked through the Solaris source files and have found no
such bug reported or fixed; the implementation from at least 1997
and beyond certainly doesn't have this problem and even the older
versions prepend getcwd() or chdir() to dirname and run getcwd()
in that directory.
Solaris does have a system call which may return relative
pathnames: resolvepath(). I believe that that function may have
confused earlier writers of realpath() manual pages and this was
later copied without verifying that fact.
realpath() existed in Solaris 2.0 as it came from SVr4.0 and even
at that time it returned the full, non-relative path.
Reported-by: Casper.Dik@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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README
This package contains Linux man pages for sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Some more information is given in the `Announce' file. Install by copying to your favourite location. "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed', then remove old versions (compressed or not), compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages. Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages also distributed in other packages. This has been reported about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so), about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils), and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to overwrite more up-to-date versions. Reports on further duplicates are welcome. Formerly present and now removed duplicates: exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*), fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*), lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*). Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights. All pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included. If you have corrections and additions to suggest, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html