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Re: _canonical_path not working on *BSD
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- From: Pea <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: _canonical_path not working on *BSD
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:51:28 +0100
- Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin@xxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <200803261534.m2QFY9L1017279@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Le Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:34:09 +0000,
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> a écrit :
> Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > This only work on OpenBSD, readlink on FreeBSD doesn't allow -f.
>
> I think that means the function won't do what it's designed to do,
> right? So in that case we should test if readlink accepts -f and if
> it doesn't, then return immediately. However, that may not be a
> trivial test. How about something like
>
> [[ -n $(readlink -f / 2>&1 >/dev/null) ]]
>
> (for which we could cache the result)? Or is testing that
> "readlink -f / >&/dev/null" returns status 0 good enough?
>
On OpenBSD:
[pea@coredump:~]% readlink -f / >&/dev/null ; echo $?
0
But readlink -f exists on netbsd only since release 4.0. Older release
doesn't have this option.
Regards.
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