Re: Symlinks handled inconsistently by cd and wild card expansion

[Reuti]

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Am 30.03.2017 um 20:06 schrieb Chet Ramey:

> On 3/30/17 11:55 AM, Reuti wrote:
> 
>> There are the options -P and -L to `pwd` and `cd`, i.e. and `cd -P ..` 
>> follows the path up, independent from the symlink, while the default is -L.
>> 
>> I don't think that changing it in general would be good, but agree that it 
>> might honor -P or -L. But this is hard to determine, as it depends on the 
>> specified command.
>> 
>> For now I get the impression, that both, the logical and the physical paths 
>> are checked.
> 
> When bash is not in Posix mode, it tries, as a last-ditch effort when
> using the canonicalized pathname fails, to use what the user typed. This
> has been the case since February, 1993, and went in as the result of
> user requests.

Thx for the clarification. - Reuti
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