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realpath(3) doesn't use lstat(2), readlink(2), or getcwd(3) anymore,

it is a thin wrapper over the syscall __readlink(2).  Improve the list
of possible errors.
ok millert beck jmc
OPENBSD_6_6
deraadt 5 years ago
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      src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3

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src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3 View File

@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: realpath.3,v 1.19 2014/01/20 22:40:06 schwarze Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: realpath.3,v 1.20 2019/06/15 15:40:44 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: January 20 2014 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: June 15 2019 $
.Dt REALPATH 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -96,13 +96,43 @@ are undefined.
.Sh ERRORS
The function
.Fn realpath
may fail and set the external variable
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the library functions
.Xr lstat 2 ,
.Xr readlink 2 ,
and
.Xr getcwd 3 .
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EACCES
Read or search permission was denied for a component of
.Ar pathname .
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
.Ar pathname
argument is a null pointer.
.It Bq Er EIO
An error occurred while reading from the file system.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating
.Ar pathname .
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of
.Ar pathname
exceeded
.Dv NAME_MAX
characters, or the entire
.Ar pathname
(including the terminating NUL) exceeded
.Dv PATH_MAX .
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
Pathname resolution of a symbolic link produced an intermediate
result whose length exceeds
.Dv PATH_MAX .
.It Bq Er ENOENT
A component of
.Ar pathname
does not name an existing file or
.Ar pathname
points to an empty string.
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
Sufficient storage space is unavailable for allocation.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr readlink 1 ,
.Xr getcwd 3
@ -116,15 +146,3 @@ The
.Fn realpath
function call first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
.Sh CAVEATS
This implementation of
.Fn realpath
differs slightly from the Solaris implementation.
The
.Bx 4.4
version always returns absolute pathnames,
whereas the Solaris implementation will,
under certain circumstances, return a relative
.Fa resolved
when given a relative
.Fa pathname .

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