Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:56:55 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Can we keep the current behaviour for cd -P?

I think that only those cases that currently give up and silently revert
to "." as the current directory would be affected, so anything that
already did something sensible would still do that.  Certainly that's
what we should be aiming for.

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