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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Remove support for old realpath() API
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:17:45 +0200
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On 05.08.24 09:41, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 05/08/2024 09:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The now preferred way to call realpath() is by passing NULL as the
>> second argument and get a malloc'ed result.  We still supported the
>> old way of providing our own buffer as a second argument, for some
>> platforms that didn't support the new way yet.  Those were only
>> Solaris less than version 11 and some older AIX versions (7.1 and
>> newer appear to support the new variant).  We don't support those
>> platforms versions anymore, so we can remove this extra code.
> 
> +1

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