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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:09:06 +0200
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: /bin/pwd versus built-in pwd
In-reply-to: <3A64D197.514DD0FA@veritas.com> (message from Bob McGowan on Tue,
	16 Jan 2001 14:56:23 -0800)
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:56:23 -0800, Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com> wrote:
> 
>  "...That is, all components of the printed name will be actual
>   directory names -- none will be symbolic links."
> 
> I'd say this is a bug.

Despite what Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> thinks, I'll say it
is a real bug with critical implications. If you want to check if
directories are the same, or in the same branch absolute paths must
be used. I have many scripts (all of them working on Linux and other
UNIX's) that use `/bin/pwd` to get the absolute path. If the current
situation is kept (i.e. `/bin/pwd` returning the path the shell used
to get to this directory, not the absolute one) then it is a big
immigration problem.

Mr. Bob McGowan suggest a solution that use Cygwin tools, namely:
    cygpath -u `cygpath -w `\`/bin/pwd\``
I checked it and it seems to work satisfactory, so why not change
the /bin/pwd to do it automaticly ?

Note. The shell pwd should continue to hold the symbolic path, so cd ..
      will get you to the directory you came from.

Ehud.


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