Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
[cd'ing to a link directory in bash]
So cd and pwd don't change to the linked-to directory, but IO
redirections and the ls command do. As does every other non-builtin.
I think it is much more important to have consistency.

That's reasonable - I'm just not accustomed to the link directory name being automatically resolved since bash doesn't do it.

POSIX specifies that whether linking to directories is supported is implementation-defined, and it doesn't specify what semantics chdir(2) and getcwd(3) should have in this situation.

Under Linux the behaviour of these syscalls corresponds to fish's behaviour, so bash/zsh are "hiding the real directory" - as confirmed by running /bin/pwd rather than the builtins.

--
http://members.dodo.com.au/~netocrat


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click
_______________________________________________
Fish-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users

Reply via email to