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Subject: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:50:47 +0400
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If a current directory is symlink, getcwd() on Unix returns directory, to
which this symlink points, while on Cygwin it returns directory itself:

mw1g017 AT 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 AT MW1G17C% cd sub/fake
mw1g017 AT MW1G17C% /bin/pwd
/tmp/sub/fake

while on Unix this returns /tmp/real.

Is it intentional?

-andrej

Have a nice DOS!
B >>


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