/bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks

[Egor Duda]

Hi!

Wednesday, 18 October, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:

EB> --- 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:
>>
>> while on Unix this returns /tmp/real.
[...]
EB> It's implementation depedant.  On my HP-UX system it returns the symbolic link
EB> name.  I could find no documentation stating that it should return the actual
EB> directory.

are  you sure you've run "/bin/pwd"? Some shells (including bash) have
internal pwd, which prints "symlinked" name.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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