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40 .Nd returns the canonicalized absolute pathname
47 .Fn realpath "const char *pathname" "char resolvedname[MAXPATHLEN]"
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
72 function will resolve both absolute and relative paths
73 and return the absolute pathname corresponding to
87 contains the pathname which caused the problem.
91 may fail and set the external variable
93 for any of the errors specified for the library functions
107 function call first appeared in
110 This implementation of
112 differs slightly from the Solaris implementation.
115 version always returns absolute pathnames,
116 whereas the Solaris implementation will,
117 under certain circumstances, return a relative
119 when given a relative