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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: cd bugs
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090714T205419-391@post.gmane.org> (raw)

POSIX requires cd to give output if a nonempty entry in CDPATH played a role, or
if 'cd -' was used.  Therefore, this line demonstrates two zsh bugs:

$ zsh -c 'emulate -R sh; cd /tmp; mkdir -p d; CDPATH=.; cd d; cd -; rmdir d'
$ bash -c 'cd /tmp; mkdir -p d; CDPATH=.; cd d; cd -; rmdir d'
/tmp/d
/tmp
$

while bash was correct in printing the absolute name of d and its parent.

When fixing this, be sure that you don't break

$ zsh -c 'emulate -R sh; mkdir foo; CDPATH=:; cd foo'

since POSIX states that particular use must remain silent (an implicit . used
from an empty CDPATH entry is different than an explicit . in CDPATH).

Another bug, mainly visible on platforms like cygwin where leading // is special
as allowed by POSIX (in particular, on my cygwin machin, //eblake exists but not
/eblake):

$ zsh -c 'emulate -R sh; CDPATH=///; cd eblake; /bin/pwd'
//eblake
$ bash -c 'CDPATH=///; cd eblake; /bin/pwd'
bash: line 0: cd: eblake: No such file or directory
/tmp
$

Since POSIX requires ///eblake to be synonymous with /eblake, and /eblake does
not exist, only bash was correct in printing an error and not changing location.

-- 
Eric Blake



             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 21:59 Eric Blake [this message]
2009-07-14 22:30 ` Eric Blake
2009-07-19 19:00   ` Peter Stephenson
2009-07-15  3:28 ` Eric Blake
2009-07-15  8:45   ` Peter Stephenson
2009-07-21  9:22 ` Peter Stephenson

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