Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:09:06 +0200 Message-Id: <200101172009.WAA11316@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /bin/pwd versus built-in pwd In-reply-to: <3A64D197.514DD0FA@veritas.com> (message from Bob McGowan on Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:56:23 -0800) Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <3A64D197.514DD0FA@veritas.com> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.104) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:56:23 -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > > "...That is, all components of the printed name will be actual > directory names -- none will be symbolic links." > > I'd say this is a bug. Despite what Christopher Faylor thinks, I'll say it is a real bug with critical implications. If you want to check if directories are the same, or in the same branch absolute paths must be used. I have many scripts (all of them working on Linux and other UNIX's) that use `/bin/pwd` to get the absolute path. If the current situation is kept (i.e. `/bin/pwd` returning the path the shell used to get to this directory, not the absolute one) then it is a big immigration problem. Mr. Bob McGowan suggest a solution that use Cygwin tools, namely: cygpath -u `cygpath -w `\`/bin/pwd\`` I checked it and it seems to work satisfactory, so why not change the /bin/pwd to do it automaticly ? Note. The shell pwd should continue to hold the symbolic path, so cd .. will get you to the directory you came from. Ehud. -- @@@@@@ @@@ @@@@@@ @ @ Ehud Karni Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency @ @ @ @@ @ Tel: +972-3-6212-757 Fax: +972-3-6292-544 @ @ @ @ @ @@ (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 @ @ @ @ @ @ Better Safe Than Sorry http://www.simonwiesel.co.il mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple