From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:12:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120402111219.62cbd0c7@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD77+gSn9zrTHDMj=zi_Y5M6b86pOizkUin8zVVEAU1aTfuKfw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:52:02 +0200
Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 16:34, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> > However, I've always been a little puzzled about the decision to set
> > $PWD to "." in this case. Bash remembers the relative location:
>
> Just to make sure this does not get lost, do we agree that not
> changing $PWD to a literal dot would make sense? Escalating the ENOENT
> to the user is probably the best approach.
Sounds OK. Silently failing and changing the directory reported doesn't
really do a lot of good to anyone.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-02 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 0:56 Richard Hartmann
2012-03-27 5:13 ` Daniel Shahaf
2012-03-27 14:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-27 15:25 ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-02 9:52 ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-02 10:12 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2012-04-02 10:56 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 11:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-02 11:10 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 11:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-03 9:51 ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-03 9:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-03 10:16 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-03 11:11 ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-03 14:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-04-02 10:15 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 10:33 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-02 10:46 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 11:07 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-02 12:59 ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-03 4:04 ` Jun T.
2012-04-03 14:43 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-04 17:03 ` Jun T.
2012-04-05 14:20 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-05 16:17 ` Jun T.
2012-04-15 1:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-15 18:07 ` Bart Schaefer
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