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Re: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks
- To: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru>, Cygwin mailing list <Cygwin at Sourceware dot Cygnus dot Com>
- Subject: Re: /bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:44:05 -0700 (PDT)
--- Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru> wrote:
> If a current directory is symlink, getcwd() on Unix returns directory, to
> which this symlink points, while on Cygwin it returns directory itself:
>
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% ls -l . sub
> .:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mw1g017 ITS 0 Oct 18 15:40 real
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mw1g017 ITS 0 Oct 18 15:40 sub
>
> sub:
> total 1
> lrw-r--r-- 1 mw1g017 ITS 18 Oct 18 15:40 fake -> ../real
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% cd sub/fake
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% /bin/pwd
> /tmp/sub/fake
>
> while on Unix this returns /tmp/real.
>
> Is it intentional?
>
It's implementation depedant. On my HP-UX system it returns the symbolic link
name. I could find no documentation stating that it should return the actual
directory.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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