From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: /bin/pwd -P doesn't expand all symlinks
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A702E93D1BA@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A209F3EB-2FC6-42AB-A4E0-B5A88C53DF4A@mac.com>
> From: Mark O'Keefe
>
> Hi,
>
> While using /bin/pwd -P to expand directories to get the absolute, non-
> symlinked version of the directory I discovered that this doesn't work on
> Cygwin as I believe it is meant to work.
>
>
> $ cd /tmp
> $ /bin/pwd -P
> /tmp
> $ ln -s /home .
> $ cd home
> $ /bin/pwd -P
> /home
> $ pwd
> /tmp/home
> $ mkdir dummy
> $ cd dummy
> $ pwd
> /tmp/home/dummy
> $ /bin/pwd -P
> /tmp/home/dummy
>
> NOTE: That last command should have returned "/home/dummy". It hasn't
> expanded the parent symbolic link as you would have expected it to do.
>
> For what I'm doing I need the physical path, not the symbolic path (which
> is what the -P is meant to provide).
>
> Please confirm if I'm correct in my understanding? I've tested this on
> Ubuntu and it works as I'd expect it...
>
> Now having to create an alternative approach to get the correct answer
> while I wait for this to be fixed (assuming it is a bug as I believe it
> is).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help in resolving this.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
FWIW, WJJFM:
$ cd /tmp
$ /bin/pwd -P
/tmp
$ ln -s /home .
$ cd home
/tmp/home
$ /bin/pwd -P
/home
$ pwd
/tmp/home
$ mkdir dummy
$ cd dummy
/tmp/home/dummy
$ pwd
/tmp/home/dummy
$ /bin/pwd -P
/home/dummy
$ uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) 2015-08-20 11:42 x86_64 Cygwin
$
--Ken Nellis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-23 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-23 4:47 BUG: " Mark O'Keefe
2015-10-23 14:02 ` Nellis, Kenneth [this message]
2015-10-23 14:52 ` Mark O'Keefe
2015-10-23 21:27 ` BUG: " Andrey Repin
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