Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> --- 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.
And it's intentional as well. In earlier versions we had problems with
`find' if you had a structure like that:
/
/etc
/usr
/usr/etc -> linked to /etc
/usr/lib
A find in /usr resulted in some senseless warning messages due to
the way `find' examines and changes thru the directory structure.
This is solved by the current implementation of chdir()/getcwd().
Corinna
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