--- Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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@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@MW1G17C% cd sub/fake
> mw1g017@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.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
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