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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fixed :unsub to make it work if ~/.zephyr.subs is

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A Benjamin)
Mon Nov 15 17:14:15 2010

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:11 -0500 (EST)
From: David A Benjamin <davidben@MIT.EDU>
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
cc: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>, barnowl-dev@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1011151709400.15631@dr-wily.mit.edu>

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, David A Benjamin wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Kevin Chen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Karl Ramm wrote:
>> 
>>> David A Benjamin <davidben@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>> 
>>>> The man pages says it's equivalent to realpath(path, NULL)
>>>> which... doesn't appear to be a GNUism?
>>>> 
>>>> We can also add another AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, but they're annoying.
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>> 
>>> It's in POSIX 2001 so we.. probably get to point and laugh if someone
>>> doesn't have it?
>> 
>> My manpage (for realpath) says that passing NULL as the second argument is 
>> a non-standard glibc extension.
>> 
>
> Lovely. Meh, we can allocate a PATH_MAX-sized buffer. Not terribly exciting.
>

Err, on second thought, reading all the NOTES in my version of the man 
page, can I run away screaming now?

Maybe glib has an implementation that isn't awful.

David

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