-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Egmont Koblinger on 11/13/2006 7:26 AM: > Hi, > > According to the bash manpage and to "help pwd", "pwd -P" should only print > something but not change the state of bash.
Unfortunately, the current wording of POSIX 2001 requires 'pwd -P' to change the state of bash. But this is only done in posix mode, since it is so counterintuitive. Also, I raised this issue with the POSIX folks a while ago, so the next version of POSIX (currently in draft form at opengroup.org/austin, free registration required to read the draft; final version expected in 2008) may relax this so that 'pwd -P' is once again non-state-changing. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFWIIx84KuGfSFAYARAk/CAJ9gYveTtd6LlPnmLjJH61qdGA1m7wCfZo1J /0bO5D3IwgUF8f0sZWClBbA= =BKzL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
