From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
        Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
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Subject: Re: Remove support for old realpath() API
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Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
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Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 12.08.24 08:47, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> I checked this in the AIX 7.3 manual and the POSIX 2008 way does not
>> appear to be mentioned there:
>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=r-realpath-subroutine

> Tom had tested this on and found that it does actually work on AIX 7.1 
> and 7.3 but the documentation is wrong.

I too have a distinct recollection of having tested this (using the
gcc compile farm machines), but I cannot find anything saying so in
the mailing list archives.  I can go check it again, I guess.

			regards, tom lane