Re: "cd .." when WD unlinked gives wrong behaviour

[Chet Ramey]

>       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149079
> 
>       When the working directory has been unlinked, "cd .." should
>       give an error exit status, but instead exits with code 0.
>       Additionally, "pwd" (the built-in) appends "/.." to the
>       previous working directory, rather than giving an error as it
>       previously did.

Odd.  It only works this way on Linux.  MacOS X, FreeBSD and BSD/OS behave
as you expect.

Solaris doesn't allow the rm to work at all.

I will look into it further.

Chet

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