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From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
Subject:  [1.7] bug in chdir
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:47:34 +0000 (UTC)
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$ ls //home
ls: reading directory //home: No such file or directory
$ # makes sense; I don't have a remote machine named home
$ cd //home
$ # huh? no error reported?
$ /bin/pwd # avoid shortcuts in bash builtin; /bin/pwd uses getcwd
//home
$ # huh? getcwd is happy with it?
$ ls
ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
$ # then how'd we get here?

We should fix chdir() to fail on attempts to go to an impossible virtual 
directory.  I discovered this because of a bug in dash:

$ dash -c 'CDPATH=/; cd home'
//home

which took me to a non-existent directory, instead of the intended /home.

-- 
Eric Blake



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