On 2/9/16 2:43 PM, Odd Arne Beck wrote: > Chet Ramey: I fear you have misunderstood me (OP). What I meant was, > exactly as you say, the parent AND current folder has been removed, but > from a different shell. It's also reprodusable if you do something like > this from within the same shell: > > mkdir -p ~/a/b > cd ~/a/b > rm -rf ~/a > cd .. > > Can you see if that produces the same error? It sure does here.
Sure, of course it does. You're in an orphaned part of the file system; the parent directory doesn't exist; there is no named path from the current directory to the root; no value for PWD is correct. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/