Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39EDA52A.296E75B9@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:27:06 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks References: <20001018124405.9125.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Earnie Boyd wrote: > > --- Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > If a current directory is symlink, getcwd() on Unix returns directory, to > > which this symlink points, while on Cygwin it returns directory itself: > > > > mw1g017@MW1G17C% ls -l . sub > > .: > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 mw1g017 ITS 0 Oct 18 15:40 real > > drwxr-xr-x 2 mw1g017 ITS 0 Oct 18 15:40 sub > > > > sub: > > total 1 > > lrw-r--r-- 1 mw1g017 ITS 18 Oct 18 15:40 fake -> ../real > > mw1g017@MW1G17C% cd sub/fake > > mw1g017@MW1G17C% /bin/pwd > > /tmp/sub/fake > > > > while on Unix this returns /tmp/real. > > > > Is it intentional? > > > > It's implementation depedant. On my HP-UX system it returns the symbolic link > name. I could find no documentation stating that it should return the actual > directory. And it's intentional as well. In earlier versions we had problems with `find' if you had a structure like that: / /etc /usr /usr/etc -> linked to /etc /usr/lib A find in /usr resulted in some senseless warning messages due to the way `find' examines and changes thru the directory structure. This is solved by the current implementation of chdir()/getcwd(). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com