From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Wed Jan 9 18:08:11 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9ED1488F8C; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 18:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE42F6CD31; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 18:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id x09I81OV009441; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id x09I81S1009440; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <201901091808.x09I81S1009440@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r342881 - head/share/skel In-Reply-To: To: Edward Napierala Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:08:01 -0800 (PST) CC: rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Reply-To: rgrimes@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: DE42F6CD31 X-Spamd-Bar: ------ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.93 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.93)[-0.930,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:08:11 -0000 > ?r., 9 sty 2019 o 16:41 Rodney W. Grimes > napisa?(a): > > > > > Author: trasz > > > Date: Wed Jan 9 11:04:27 2019 > > > New Revision: 342881 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342881 > > > > > > Log: > > > Make sh(1) recognize the default $HOME. By default /home > > > is a symlink; without this change, when you log in, sh(1) > > > won't realize the current directory (eg '/usr/home/test') > > > is the same as $HOME ('/home/test'). > > > > Arguably it shouldnt know any of that. > > sh(1) needs to know that in order to properly shorten the current > directory path (in prompt) to "~" when you're there. And imho it should not be doing that.... that is what leads to all this other un needed cruft. ~ is a human input shortcut, not a computer output shortcut > > > Or that $Home is ~ either > > I hate that if I "cd home" and there is not a directory > > where I am at called home it takes me to ~/$home,s > > that also has caused a few script debugging to be > > a royal Pita having to force ./$variable to stop > > home from being treated special. > > But none of that seems related to the change above, does it? It is all related as this is outgrowth of trying to make the prompt spit out ~ when you are in $HOME. > All the patch does is: if your current directory is $HOME, but > it's spelled differently, run "cd". The only thing that does, in turn, > is making sh(1) set the $ENV variable, which it uses to track > the current "logical working directory", eg /home/test. It cannot > obtain that information otherwise, because getcwd(3) in that > directory returns its "physical path", eg /usr/home/test. It SHOULD spit out the results of getcwd and not some logical interpretation of variables. Do any OTHER cd's through a symbolic link do such magic? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org