Re: [PATCH] doc: note the relationship between realpath and readlink

[Michael Stone]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 08:28:15AM -0800, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I was getting at `readlink` on macOS not supporting -f,
> while realpath is available on FreeBSD and macOS ports with
> a compatible albeit a subset interface.

Whereas OpenBSD has readlink -f but no realpath(1).

My suggestion would be to just drop all the qualitative language about 
which is more popular or widely used and just add a simple statement 
that future coreutils development will go into realpath and that is the 
recommended interface to use in new projects.

Mike Stone