From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6234 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2006 22:32:15 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Jan 2006 22:32:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 11064 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2006 22:32:08 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 4 Jan 2006 22:32:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 397 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2006 22:32:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 22120 Received: (qmail 387 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2006 22:32:06 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 4 Jan 2006 22:32:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 10789 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2006 22:32:06 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 4 Jan 2006 22:32:04 -0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EuHAG-0005Qq-2k for zsh-workers@sunsite.dk; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:31:28 +0100 Received: from cust.fiber-lan.snet.lk.212.214.112.43.visit.se ([212.214.112.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:31:27 +0100 Received: from qha by cust.fiber-lan.snet.lk.212.214.112.43.visit.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:31:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk From: Ulrik Haugen Subject: Re: BUG: cd '' doesn't produce an error Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:30:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87r77nlj86.fsf@haugen.visit.se> References: <87zmmvxl3g.fsf@haugen.visit.se> <20051221102159.44d9f5ca.pws@csr.com> <877j9mycf9.fsf@haugen.visit.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust.fiber-lan.snet.lk.212.214.112.43.visit.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FuTyUlwk0pR8huP/AHu9Ezegrko= Sender: news Peter Stephenson wrote: > That's because of the special handling of ".": if it doesn't occur in > cdpath, it's assumed to occur first. > That's long-standing behaviour, although I think the documentation (for > cd) is a bit screwy... Ok, after reading your documentation changes and tinkering a bit my self I think I've gotten a grasp on cdpath. It seems to me that having another directory in cdpath before . would be quite unusual, and that was the one case when cd to the empty string was even remotely useful. I don't think that motivates not complaining about an argument that you can't stat(2), but I can't think of anything but subjective reasons any more though. :|