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

[Odd Arne Beck]

Den 09.02.2016 20:55, skrev 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.
Well, I no longer think there's a discussion left with this issue. I 
believe we're all aware of why things happen the
way they do in this case. I found it amusing that the path returned from 
the 'pwd' command was "/home/oddb/a/b/.."
after I had deleted both it's parent folder (and current folder).

Thanks for listening.

Best regards

Odd Beck