From: rkim@ElectronicDNA.com (Richard Y. Kim) Subject: ash.exe bug 7 Apr 1998 01:54:16 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: rkim@ElectronicDNA.com To: gnu-win32 list The following illustrates gnu-win32 b19 ash.exe bug where the cd command does not work if a symbolic link is involved. bash.exe-2.01$ ln -s / /i_am_a_symlink bash.exe-2.01$ /bin/ash -c "cd /i_am_a_symlink/tmp; pwd" / bash.exe-2.01$ /bin/bash -c "cd /i_am_a_symlink/tmp; pwd" /i_am_a_symlink/tmp bash.exe-2.01$ rm /i_am_a_symlink Note that /bin/ash.exe is what comes as sh.exe in cdk.tar.gz. This is one reason why my /bin/sh is a copy of bash, i.e., bash.exe-2.01$ ls -l /bin total 370 -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 everyone 55808 Feb 26 10:24 ash.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 everyone 349184 Feb 26 10:18 bash.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 everyone 349184 Apr 6 13:53 sh.exe Richard Y. Kim rkim@ElectronicDNA.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".