realpath bug

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 09 February 2007, Marc Leeman wrote:
> The system is using an empty /tmp fs (tmpfs), so the socket or any other
> file is not present in /tmp when xmallok_realpath("/dev/log") is called.

then the behavior of realpath is correct ... it should return NULL on broken 
symlinks which is what it appears to be doing

> So since uclibc's implementation of realpath matches glibc's; we should
> re-store the relevant parts of the older syslogd code again instead of
> fixing it in xmalloc_realpath()?

that seems to be prudent i would think
-mike
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