On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:07:14PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:06:53PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> >> Does anyone feel like committing this (or fixing this funny
> >> behaviour in some other way)? Diff is appended below.
> >
> > OK, let's ask the other way 'round:
> > Any objections to committing the patch below?
>
> Assuming the -P option of pwd means what it does elsewhere, that
> meaning can be summarized as "please work properly" so that seems like
> a fine thing.
I disagree with that assessment. The problem is that it is too general
and can break some natural things. E.g.
test $(pwd -P) = $(cd $(pwd -P)/foo && cd .. && pwd -P)
is not invariant any longer.
> not sure if it's a good idea during the freeze though.
Certainly not.
Joerg