Root directory being a junction fools realpath()
David Macek
david.macek.0@gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 11:46:06 GMT 2021
Thank you for diagnosing.
> > This isn't realpath's fault. You're circumventing the mount point
> > handling
It was not my intention. :) It's just due to my sharing scripts and
configurations between various machines (with varying disk layouts and
sizes), I sometimes need to use links to work around things.
[...]
> I just wonder if such a bordercase is worth the extra performance hit
> for each Cygwin invocation.
Of course I'd like to see it resolved, but I don't remember any
non-cosmetic issue caused by it, *so far*. Is there an estimate of
how big of a slow-down the fix causes?
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David Macek
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