On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Ken Phillis Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> I may be showing signs of idiocy here, but... I don't at all >> understand what you're saying. Could you elaborate as to the specific >> example you have in mind where open(filename) differs from >> open(os.path.realpath(filename))? The example that I have is where >> "filename" is a fake symlink generated by the shell (or kernel, not >> sure), and dereferencing it is harmful. That's why I've removed the >> symlink dereference. In any other instance, open() would just follow >> the symlink just like realpath would... >> >> -ilia > > The resolving of the real path is to resolve problems with relative > file paths and a system where the piglit's files and folders are read > only.
Again... specific example, please :) I don't see how my change would affect whether that works or not. _______________________________________________ Piglit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/piglit
