Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/05/06/03:15:12
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> do you plan to support the realpath() function?
Nobody asked for it until now (personally, I didn't even know such a
function existed on Unix platforms).
It should be easy to add a simple wrapper around _fixpath. Volunteers
are welcome ;-)
> AFAICS, the _fixpath() function is functionally
> mostly equivalent, but the underscore suggests that it's not meant
> for use from normal programs!?
The underscore simply means that the name is not in any standard. A
library is allowed to use such names without caring about name-space
conflicts.
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