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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/9/16 2:43 PM, Odd Arne Beck wrote:

> Chet Ramey: I fear you have misunderstood me (OP). What I meant was,
> exactly as you say, the parent AND current folder has been removed, but
> from a different shell. It's also reprodusable if you do something like
> this from within the same shell:
> 
> mkdir -p ~/a/b
> cd ~/a/b
> rm -rf ~/a
> cd ..
> 
> Can you see if that produces the same error? It sure does here.

Sure, of course it does.  You're in an orphaned part of the file system;
the parent directory doesn't exist; there is no named path from the
current directory to the root; no value for PWD is correct.

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