Re: bug when 'cd ..' to a directory who's parent has been deleted

[Andreas Schwab]

Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:

> On 2/8/16 9:59 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> `cd ..' should fail, since the parent no longer exists, and the pathname
>>> canonicalization should fail, since there's presumably no longer a valid
>>> path to reach the current directory.  No value for $PWD is correct.
>> 
>> ${PWD%/*} would be a reasonable value.  FWIW, this is what ksh uses in
>> this case, it doesn't fail.
>
> Why would that be more reasonable than anything else?  It references a
> path that doesn't exist.

Sorry, I misread the OP's message.  I didn't notice it's about the
parent's parent, not the parent.

Andreas.

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