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Alex Lamar de1dc0ae2e module: preserve symlinks when requiring Currently, required modules use the real location of the package/file as their __filename and __dirname, instead of the symlinked path if it exists. This behaviour is undocumented (it even goes against documentation in certain scenarios), creating hard-to-debug problems for developers who wish to leverage filesystem abstractions to lay out their application. This patch resolves all required modules to their canonical path while still preserving any symlinks within the path, instead of resolving to their canonical realpath. The one special case observed is when the main module is loaded -- in this case, the realpath does need to be used in order for the main module to load properly. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5950 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>	9 years ago
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index.js	module: preserve symlinks when requiring	9 years ago

Alex Lamar de1dc0ae2e module: preserve symlinks when requiring

Currently, required modules use the real location of the
package/file as their __filename and __dirname, instead
of the symlinked path if it exists. This behaviour is
undocumented (it even goes against documentation in
certain scenarios), creating hard-to-debug problems
for developers who wish to leverage filesystem abstractions
to lay out their application.

This patch resolves all required modules to their canonical
path while still preserving any symlinks within the path,
instead of resolving to their canonical realpath. The one
special case observed is when the main module is loaded
-- in this case, the realpath does need to be used
in order for the main module to load properly.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5950
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

9 years ago

index.js

module: preserve symlinks when requiring

9 years ago