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40 .Nd returns the canonicalized absolute pathname
47 .Fn realpath "const char * restrict pathname" "char * restrict resolvedname"
51 function resolves all symbolic links, extra
53 characters and references to
59 and copies the resulting absolute pathname into
60 the memory referenced by
66 refer to a buffer capable of storing at least
73 function will resolve both absolute and relative paths
74 and return the absolute pathname corresponding to
81 it will be allocated and the returned pointer can be deallocated using
96 it will contain the pathname which caused the problem.
100 may fail and set the external variable
102 for any of the errors specified for the library functions
103 .\" First sorted by section, then by name.
110 In addition, the following errors may be reported:
118 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the
120 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
121 The resulting absolute pathname exceeds
127 argument is an empty string;
128 or a symbolic link to an empty string is encountered.
130 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
143 function call first appeared in
147 the function was updated to accept a
153 This implementation of
155 differs slightly from the Solaris implementation.
158 version always returns absolute pathnames,
159 whereas the Solaris implementation will,
160 under certain circumstances, return a relative
162 when given a relative