From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 680 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2012 11:00:16 -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: 16952 Received: (qmail 27872 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2012 11:00:14 -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 12:00:08 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: Subject: Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case Message-ID: <20120402120008.0ed7e583@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-Reply-To: References: <120327073414.ZM6783@torch.brasslantern.com> <20120402111219.62cbd0c7@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> 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="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.101.10.170] X-Scanned-By: MailControl 7.7.0 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.71.0.126 On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:56:55 +0200 Mikael Magnusson 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. -- 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, Cambridge 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