/bin/pwd versus built-in pwd

Wed Jan 17 12:43:00 GMT 2001

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:09:06PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote:
>On 2001年1月16日 14:56:23 -0800, Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com> wrote:
>>>> "...That is, all components of the printed name will be actual
>> directory names -- none will be symbolic links."
>>>> I'd say this is a bug.
>>Despite what Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> thinks, I'll say it
>is a real bug with critical implications.

Huh? I never said it wasn't a bug. Quite the contrary.
I suggested that people read the email archives. Look for "pwd symlink".
>If you want to check if directories are the same, or in the same branch
>absolute paths must be used. I have many scripts (all of them working
>on Linux and other UNIX's) that use `/bin/pwd` to get the absolute
>path. If the current situation is kept (i.e. `/bin/pwd` returning the
>path the shell used to get to this directory, not the absolute one)
>then it is a big immigration problem.

I have no idea what an "immigration problem" is but you're welcome, as
always to submit a patch.
cgf
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