On 01/09/2014 07:19 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 1/9/14 12:42 PM, Ondrej Oprala wrote: >> Hi, I investigated this bug report: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987975 >> and found out that some of bash's builtins (source at the very least) do >> not canonicalize >> pathnames given as arguments (builtin "open" is instead fed with the path - >> failing in the BZ case). >> The builtin "cd" seems to handle relative paths correctly. I think it would >> be reasonable to take part of >> cd's canonicalization code and use it in other builtins as well. I'd gladly >> take care of the patch. >> Would upstream consider this a good approach? > > I have reservations. If the user in question wants consistent behavior, > I suggest he use `set -o physical' for a while and see if it does what > he wants. The solution might be that simple.
See also the coreutils realpath command which might be useful in the general case: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/realpath-invocation.html thanks, Pádraig.
