--- Egor Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Wednesday, 18 October, 2000 Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> EB> --- 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:
> >>
> >> while on Unix this returns /tmp/real.
> [...]
> EB> It's implementation depedant. On my HP-UX system it returns the symbolic
> link
> EB> name. I could find no documentation stating that it should return the
> actual
> EB> directory.
>
> are you sure you've run "/bin/pwd"? Some shells (including bash) have
> internal pwd, which prints "symlinked" name.
>
Ok. HP-UX /bin/pwd prints the actual directory. But, what does /bin/pwd on
Linux do? Where is any documentation for what it should do for symlink? I
haven't found anything useful that describes what happens for symlink.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
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