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> Most likely libiberty's other customers (read: other GNU components
> :-) ) want consistent behavior, and I'm inclined to think they would
> prefer consistency with each other over consistency with "real"
> realpath.

The goal was consistency across platforms.  Not all platforms *have* a
realpath() function.