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: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E1CF@IIS000> From: Bernard Dautrevaux To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: /bin/pwd versus built-in pwd Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:12:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:43 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: /bin/pwd versus built-in pwd > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:09:06PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: > >On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:56:23 -0800, Bob McGowan > 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 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". Looked at the archive; seems like to fix a bug in find, we've add a bug in getcwd()? :-) > > >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. I think Ehud wanted to say a "migration problem", and that's exactly what I'm afraid of for some of my scripts I have to migrate to cygwin and probably why some complicated ones are broken there that I do not had time to investigate ;-( Regards, Bernard -------------------------------------------- Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingenierie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com b.dautrevaux@usa.net -------------------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple