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Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 23:43:46 +1000
From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/pwd pwd.1 pwd.c
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On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:30:09AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:

> > tjr         2002/05/17 19:47:25 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     bin/pwd              pwd.1 pwd.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Make -L the default, allow both -L and -P to be specified (last one used
> >   matters), fall back to -P mode if we can't get the logical directory.
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.19      +2 -2      src/bin/pwd/pwd.1
> >   1.18      +14 -9     src/bin/pwd/pwd.c
> 
> I don't think this is wise.  I've always been of the understanding 
> that ``pwd'' gives me my logical directory and ``/bin/pwd'' gives me 
> the physical one.  I've written scripts to depend on this.

Ok, I will restore -P as the default for the moment. I understand that
/bin/pwd has historically used getcwd() or similar, but I wasn't aware
that anything would break if pwd gave the logical directory name by default.

What assumptions do the scripts make that would no longer work if -L
was the default?


Tim

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