From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2410 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2012 10:50:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16950 Received: (qmail 9313 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2012 10:50:38 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at csr.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:12:19 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: Subject: Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case Message-ID: <20120402111219.62cbd0c7@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-Reply-To: References: <120327073414.ZM6783@torch.brasslantern.com> Organization: Cambridge Silicon Radio X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.101.10.170] X-Scanned-By: MailControl 7.7.0 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.71.0.142 On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:52:02 +0200 Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 16:34, Bart Schaefer = wrote: >=20 > > However, I've always been a little puzzled about the decision to set > > $PWD to "." in this case. =C2=A0Bash remembers the relative location: >=20 > 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. --=20 Peter Stephenson Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and= Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambr= idge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom More information can be found at www.csr.com. Follow CSR on Twitter at http= ://twitter.com/CSR_PLC and read our blog at www.csr.com/blog