Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 07:53:47 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: realpath()
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On Sat, 15 May 1999, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> call _fixpath (with the same 2 arguments that it takes)
> check if the resulting path exists
> if so, return it (i.e., the second parameter resolved_path)
> otherwise:
> find the first component that does not exist
> truncate resolved_path after that component

I don't see this truncation described in the man page of the Unix box 
that I can access (Solaris 2.5).  Where did you see it?