[tex-k] xdvi 22.40i status

[Thomas Esser]

> (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() 

:-)

Thomas