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26.1.92; Segfault in module with --module-assertions

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Message #23 received at 34655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 34655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34655: 26.1.92; Segfault in module with --module-assertions
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:10:11 -0500

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  > Re: the name, I chose 'realpath' because the original implementation was
  > just that: a wrapper around realpath(3).  It was only in a later version
  > that I switched to using canonicalize_file_name(3) instead.  Perhaps a
  > better name would have been 'truename' or similar, but I don't think
  > this is important enough a matter to justify renaming it now.  Do you?

If you don't think it is worth publicizing, and you don't really want
to use it, I won't claim that minor fixes in it are important.

A good name might be

   nonmagic-file-truename


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