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 Reply-To: From: "JQ Johnson" To: Subject: symlinks in bash 2.05 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:58:53 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 I installed cygwin 1.3.1 with bash-2.05-3 today, and noticed a minor infelicity in the handling of symlinks. With the new symlink support, if I cd to a symlink, then pwd only displays the logical cwd. "pwd -P" (or, more importantly, set -o physical) displays a null string after connecting to a symlink. /bin/pwd continues to work correctly. To reproduce: create a symlink or a Windows .lnk to some absolute pathname, e.g. /etc. For example: 534-$ ln -s /etc foo 535-$ pwd /cygdrive/c/users/jqj 536-$ cd foo /cygdrive/c/users/jqj/foo 537-$ /bin/pwd /etc 538-$ pwd -L /cygdrive/c/users/jqj/foo 539-$ pwd -P 540-$ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple