Re: symlink bug?

From: Jan-Simon Pendry (JS.Pendry@msdw.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 07:57:15 EST


probably a feature of the shell. what does /bin/pwd report?

Szekeres Istvan wrote:
>
> Hi, this thingie has happened to me:
>
> $ mkdir a
> $ mkdir a/b
> $ ln -s a/b c
> $ cd c
> $ pwd
> /home/szekeres/c
> $ touch foo
> $ ls -l foo
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 szekeres szekeres 0 Apr 6 14:13 foo
>
> Now comes the interesting part:
> $ mv foo ..
>
> Here I expect that foo will be moved to /home/szekeres, however:
>
> $ cd ..
> $ pwd
> /home/szekeres
> $ ls foo
> ls: foo: No such file or directory
> $ ls a/foo
> a/foo
> $ ls c/../foo
> c/../foo
>
> Shall I consider this a bug or a feature? :)
>
> Pista
>
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