[rrd-developers] rrdcached: path sanitizer

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote:

> > >        realpath() expands all symbolic links and resolves references  to
> > >  /./,
>
> > This is going to cause a LOT of stat() calls: O(commands * average dir
> > depth)
> >
> > I see your point, but it's probably better to do trivial string
> > manipulations that don't hit the filesystem.
> > The whole point of rrdcached is to defer and collate I/O.
>
> You are absolutely right. Originally I wanted a simple character
> copy function but suddenly I found realpath() and I was too happy
> to think over what happens to symlinks. Sorry for the noise.

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cheers
tobi
>
> Gabor
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>

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