realpath returns NULL for broken symlinks

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 08:06:40PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> > <snip>
> > Is there any reference on the spec about the definitive meaning of
> > "component"?
> 
> 3.169 Filename
> A filename is sometimes referred to as a "pathname component".
> 
> but the only real way to find a definite answer is to ask on one of the 
> mailing lists that tracks the spec ... if only i could find one ...
> -mike

Not that it is definitive, considering the places where uClibc
and glibc diverge in our understanding of the standards, but from
a quick look over glibc's stdlib/canonicalize.c it looks like it
also returns a NULL when readlink fails.

 -Erik

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