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Re: declare canonicalize_file_name
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:56:02 -0800
- Subject: Re: declare canonicalize_file_name
- References: <20020314132845.A25190@redhat.com> <3C912539.4010009@cygnus.com>
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:33:29PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> I believe RichardE's fixed this (or will when he wakes up :-). GDB
> should have been using realpath() in preference to
> canonicalize_file_name() .
The problem will still hold with canonicalize_file_name
should it be used.
Of course, since it's specific to glibc, and glibc also
provides realpath, it won't ever be used. Why not remove
support for it then?
r~