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 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Cygwin mailing list" , "Earnie Boyd" , "Egor Duda" Subject: RE: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:27:35 +0400 Message-ID: <000801c03907$2d8689c0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-To: <13414742969.20001018171853@logos-m.ru> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal > > Wednesday, 18 October, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote: > > EB> --- 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: > >> > >> 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com