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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:18:53 +0400
From: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks
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Hi!

Wednesday, 18 October, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com wrote:

EB> --- 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:
>>
>> 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.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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