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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:44:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks
To: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru>,
        Cygwin mailing list <Cygwin AT Sourceware DOT Cygnus DOT Com>
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--- Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru> 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 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?
> 

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.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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