Re: cd, relative paths, and PATH_MAX

[Andries Brouwer <yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:49:27PM +0100, Geoff Clare wrote:

> > What sometimes happens is that some directory lower in the tree
> > gets renamed. So I do not touch PWD, and the inode that is my
> > current working directory does not change, but PWD no longer
> > is a pathname that points to it.
> 
> Okay, I see the problem now.
> 
> The simplest fix ...
> ...  A more elegant fix might be not to convert to an
> absolute path in the first place when -P is in effect.  I.e. with -P,
> step 6 would set curpath to the operand and step 9 would be skipped.
> 
> I'm inclined to go for the more elegant one.

I am completely happy with this suggestion.

Andries