Re: Builtins should canonicalize path arguments

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/9/14 12:42 PM, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> Hi, I investigated this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987975
> and found out that some of bash's builtins (source at the very least) do
> not canonicalize
> pathnames given as arguments (builtin "open" is instead fed with the path -
> failing in the BZ case).
> The builtin "cd" seems to handle relative paths correctly. I think it would
> be reasonable to take part of
> cd's canonicalization code and use it in other builtins as well. I'd gladly
> take care of the patch.
> Would upstream consider this a good approach?

I have reservations.  If the user in question wants consistent behavior,
I suggest he use `set -o physical' for a while and see if it does what
he wants.  The solution might be that simple.

Chet
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