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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:27:06 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

And it's intentional as well. In earlier versions we had problems with
`find' if you had a structure like that:

	/
	/etc
	/usr
	/usr/etc -> linked to /etc
	/usr/lib

A find in /usr resulted in some senseless warning messages due to
the way `find' examines and changes thru the directory structure.

This is solved by the current implementation of chdir()/getcwd().

Corinna

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