/bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks

Wed Oct 18 06:27:00 GMT 2000

>> Wednesday, 18 October, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
>> EB> --- Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru> wrote:
> >> If a current directory is symlink, getcwd() on Unix returns directory, to
> >> which this symlink points, while on Cygwin it returns directory itself:
> >>
> >> while on Unix this returns /tmp/real.
> [...]
> EB> It's implementation depedant. On my HP-UX system it returns
> the symbolic link
> EB> name. I could find no documentation stating that it should
> return the actual
> EB> directory.
>> are you sure you've run "/bin/pwd"? Some shells (including bash) have
> internal pwd, which prints "symlinked" name.
>
:-)))

Yep. Speaking about "some shells" - it was exact reason why I noticed it. Zsh
has chaselinks option that forces built-in pwd command resolve symbolic links.
This option has no effect on cygwin because getcwd always returns symbolic
link.
To avoid using getcwd we'd need to reimplement cygdrive handling in zsh. Makes
no sense.
-andrej
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