[ruby-core:104508] [Ruby master Feature#16978] Ruby should not use realpath for __FILE__

Issue #16978 has been updated by Dan0042 (Daniel DeLorme).


jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) wrote in #note-16:
> It's not difficult to make `__FILE__` use `realpath`

I read this once more a bit more carefully and I think there's a misunderstanding... the idea here is that realpath should be used in `require` _before_ checking if the file is already loaded (and then loading it). So `p->ruby_sourcefile_string` would already be the realpath.


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Feature #16978: Ruby should not use realpath for __FILE__
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16978#change-92778

* Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
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This is the simplest test case:

~~~
$ mkdir a

$ echo "puts __FILE__" > a/test.rb

$ ln -s a b

$ ruby -Ib -e "require 'test'"
/builddir/a/test.rb
~~~

This behavior is problematic, because Ruby should not know nothing about the `a` directory. It was not instructed to use it. I should always refer to the file using the original path and do not dig into the underlying details, otherwise depending on file system setup, one might be forced to used `File.realpath` everywhere trying to use `__FILE__`.



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