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Date:      Tue, 31 Dec 1996 17:31:04 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/2331: strange output of sh's pwd on symlinked directories
Message-ID:  <199612310631.RAA26286@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>According to Helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De:
>> >Synopsis:       strange output of sh's pwd on symlinked directories
>> >Description:
>> The shell builtin prints wrong names if you cd .. up crossing a
>> symlinked directory.
>
>It is not really a bug, jsust use a modern shell :-)

It is really a bug.  sh's pwd used to be equivalent to /bin/pwd.  Now
it is broken after `cd symlink; cd ..'.

Bruce



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