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readlink changes installed
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Jim Meyering |
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readlink changes installed |
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Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:52:42 +0200 |
I've installed the following patch from Dmitry V: Levin.
ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/coreutils/
In private mail (due to difficulty getting past the list software),
he wrote:
I've implemented the changes mentioned above. That is, "readlink -f" is
now more compatible with prior implementations, old behaviour moved to
"readlink -e", and your proposed relaxed -ff mode implemented as "-m".
I don't insist on these option names though.
There's quite a bit of discussion here:
http://bugs.debian.org/225836
This change adds two new `canonicalize' options to readlink.
I don't particularly like the new option names, so
if anyone can think of better names, possibly of the
form --canonicalize=MODE, I'd be happy to change them:
-f, --canonicalize canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given path recursively;
all but the last path component must exist
-e, --canonicalize-existing canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given path recursively,
all path components must exist
-m, --canonicalize-missing canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given path recursively,
without requirements on components existence
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