Symlink chasing

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:30:30 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The whole symlink-chasing code is probably ripe to be rewritten with
> zsh-heap (or even malloc + static pointers) allocation unless we have
> reason to beleive that's a serious performance issue.

I'd be very surprised if it causes a performance problem if sensibly
written.

Ideally, it would be good not to rely on PATH_MAX at all, though that's
a very long way off.

pws