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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:52:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 16:34, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wr=
ote:

> However, I've always been a little puzzled about the decision to set
> $PWD to "." in this case. =C2=A0Bash 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.


Richard