Re: CDPATH bug

[Chet Ramey]

Pierre Gaston wrote:

> I think I did, if bash is invoked as sh, it behaves differently, one
> of these differences is that
> cd will not try to search in you current directory.
> as soon as CDPATH is set, "cd Desktop" will only work if Desktop is in a 
> subdir
> of the directories defined in CDPATH and will fail even if Desktop is
> in your current dir.
> 
> This behaviour is documented in the reference guide read again my first mail.
> 
> It seems that  this  documented behaviour is a "bug" because POSIX
> doesn't define it this way. I tend to agree with Erik on this point.

I have not made up my mind about it.  The bash behavior when invoked
as `sh' (or in posix mode) is the historical sh behavior, and is what
other shells claiming posix compliance (ksh93, dash) or as close as
you can get to a straight-line descendant of the bourne shell (SVR2
sh, SVR3 sh, SVR4.2 sh) do.

Chet


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