Re: Reducing the number of system calls for includes

> >Another idea would be to try to streamline the normal case for an absolute > >pathname. How about doing a readlink() on it. If that tells us that it > >is a link, then we know there is something funky and we can do a realpath, > >otherwise we just assume it is canonical assuming there are no . .. or // > >in the filename in which case we fall back to a realpath() as well. > > Hmm I'm not sure this would give you what you're looking for. I think it > only works if the last element of the path is a symbolic link but I might > be wrong. I'm not quite sure of the semantics of readlink(). You are right. Somehow I had it in my head that readlink() would catch any part of the path being a link. -Rasmus