[tex-k] xdvi 22.40i status

[Stefan Ulrich]

Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de> writes:

>> (FWIW, the main reason this takes longer than a few minutes is
>> that the quick & dirty solution of just replacing x/.. by /
>> won't work with symlinks. We might want to adapt the code
>> from wu-ftpd's realpath.c, but without the seteuid(0) part.)

> I don't really know if this information is still needed (given the
> unclear situation about the future of gs), but you should look at
> the kpathsea sources. progname.c has all you need:
>   remove_dots(),
>   expand_symlinks() 

Thanks for the pointer - why on earth didn't I think of
kpathsearch? ;-)

We'll see whether we still need it (depending on how the
alternatives mentioned by Paul will work out), but if so,
it will definitely be the best way to do this.

-- 
Stefan Ulrich