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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add canonicalize_file_name\r
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+On Mon, Jan 27 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+\r
+> the POSIX 2008 behaviour of realpath is not available everywhere so we\r
+> provide a simple wrapper function. We use (and provide) the gnu\r
+> extension canonicalize_file_name to make it cleaner to test for the\r
+> feature we need; otherwise we have to rely on realpath segfaulting if\r
+> the second argument is null.\r
+> ---\r
+\r
+I think this patch is tolerable. I first thought we should check the\r
+combination of not having canonicalize_file_name() and having POSIX 2008\r
+behaviour of realpath()...\r
+\r
+... but the compat code is simple enough and basically done the same way\r
+as in (e.g.)\r
+\r
+http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.2.0/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c?revision=255898&view=markup\r
+\r
+qualifying the implementation. So +1 from me.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+> compat/Makefile.local | 4 ++++\r
+> compat/canonicalize_file_name.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++\r
+> compat/compat.h | 8 ++++++++\r
+> compat/have_canonicalize_file_name.c | 10 ++++++++++\r
+> configure | 16 ++++++++++++++++\r
+> notmuch-config.c | 2 +-\r
+> 6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+> create mode 100644 compat/canonicalize_file_name.c\r
+> create mode 100644 compat/have_canonicalize_file_name.c\r
+>\r