Eric Blake wrote:
On further research, the requirement for `pwd -P' to set PWD was intentional,
and not a mistake. See POSIX XRAT A.3
(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/xrat/xbd_chap03.html) under
Symbolic Links line 1148, which states:
Historically, several shells have had built-i
Chet Ramey caleb.ins.cwru.edu> writes:
> >
> > Description:
> > POSIX requires pwd(1) with the -P option to update the PWD environment
> > variable with a version scrubbed of all symlinks. See
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pwd.html
> >
> > Bash currently does not d
According to Chet Ramey on 2/16/2005 12:55 PM:
>>POSIX requires pwd(1) with the -P option to update the PWD environment
>>variable with a version scrubbed of all symlinks. See
>>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pwd.html
>>
> I agree that the standard says that, but no shell
> Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin
>
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> POSIX requires pwd(1) with the -P option to update the PWD environment
> variable with a version scrubbed of all symlinks. See
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utili
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