Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: check for POSIX.1-2008 realpath(3) implementation.

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: check for POSIX.1-2008 realpath(3)\r
+       implementation.\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+>\r
+> We could also create\r
+>\r
+> char * realpath2008 (const char * path, char * resolved_path)\r
+> {\r
+>         if (resolved_path == NULL) {\r
+>              resolved_path = malloc (MAX_PATH);\r
+>                 if (resolved_path == NULL)\r
+>                      return NULL;\r
+>         }\r
+>         return realpath (path, resolved_path);\r
+> }\r
+>         \r
+\r
+I sent several private replies to Tomi this morning while being\r
+sleepy. But they were not so great replies anyway.\r
+\r
+What about implimenting a compat version of canonicalize_file_name ?\r
+that function is a gnu extension, but since we only call realpath with a\r
+NULL second argument, it might be slighltly simpler to test/google for.\r
+\r
+d\r