> Folks who have been following this thread might find the following code
> I wrote a long time ago interesting. It's purely user mode code, but
> it's how I dealt with cannonicalizing a pathname getting rid of symbolic
> links.
This is very similar to the realpath/canonicalize_file_name
implementation in glibc which has the advantage that it doesn't need
dynamic allocating. We use alloca in two places but two extra pages
are enough for the whole process.
-- Uli
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