On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:28:03PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:34:57PM +0000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Author: ru > > Date: Tue Jun 21 19:34:57 2011 > > New Revision: 223372 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/223372 > > > Log: > > Make ``realpath'' behave like ``realpath .''. > > Is this being added for compatibility with something? > > If not, why do we need this non-standard extension if the shorter and > standard pwd -P already fulfills this function?
I treat it as a convenient addition to a non-standard utility. realpath(1) was first added in FreeBSD in year 2000 by phk@, as a convenience utility. In r90523 the ability to call "realpath" without arguments (with a similar behavior but different implementation) was added by mike@. Ten months later, this syntax was removed by johan@ in r108034. I'm not aware of any standard and/or another non-FreeBSD based OS that also have this utility (only saw a mention of a patch that adds an utility of the same name into GNU shell-utils, but it seems to have never happened). We could emphasize this: Index: realpath.1 =================================================================== --- realpath.1 (revision 223372) +++ realpath.1 (working copy) @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ fails. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +The +.Nm +utility is non-standard and should not be used in portable scripts. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr realpath 3 .Sh HISTORY Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov r...@freebsd.org FreeBSD committer _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
