Hi,
I suspect this may have come up on this list before, but a search didn't
reveal it*.
Does POSIX require that coreutils commands use only physical path rather
than pwd to resolve relative paths? When pwd contains symlinks and we try
to operate upon relative paths that take us outside the symlink, the
effect is often jarring and non-intuitive.
For example:
$ mkdir base_dir
$ cd base_dir
$ mkdir -p x/y
$ touch z
$ ln -s x/y f
$ cd f
$ cp ../z .
cp: cannot stat `../z': No such file or directory
$ ls ..
y
Related discussion on bug-bash:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/9273
Thanks,
Kartik
* - The closest I got was this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-04/msg00073.html
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