On 06/05/2011 09:27 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On AIX 7.1 I'm seeing this test failure: > > test-canonicalize-lgpl.c:69: assertion failed > FAIL: test-canonicalize-lgpl > > The reason is apparently a bug in realpath. Here's a test case:
>
> result = realpath ("conftest.dir//.", NULL);
> if (result != NULL) printf ("%s\n", result); else printf ("errno=%d\n",
> errno)
> /home/haible/testdir1/gltests/conftest.dir/
Suspicious to have a trailing slash here when no one else does, but
allowed by POSIX.
> result = realpath ("conftest.dir//./..", NULL);
> if (result != NULL) printf ("%s\n", result); else printf ("errno=%d\n",
> errno)
> /home/haible/testdir1/gltests/conftest.dir
Flat out wrong. This should be /home/haible/testdir1/gltests.
> result = realpath ("conftest.dir//./../conftest.dir", NULL);
> if (result != NULL) printf ("%s\n", result); else printf ("errno=%d\n",
> errno)
> errno=2
Flat out wrong. The mere change from / to // in the middle of the
string should have no impact.
>
> Do you think we should work around it?
Yes. I'll work on that, and see if I can come up with anything in the
next hour or so.
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