Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Ivan Shmakov dies 08/02/2007 hora 02:02:
>       Yes, shells oftenly do that.  Note, however, that almost every
>       other program isn't so smart:
> 
> $ mkdir -p a/b c/d
> $ cd c/d
> c/d $ ln -s ../../a/b e
> c/d $ cd e
> c/d/e $ ls ../
> b
> c/d/e $ 
> 
>       Would `ls' parse `..' by itself, `e' would have been shown
>       instead.
> 
>       And again, I'm not about to /deny/ such ``lexical''
>       interpretation of `..', but it's not clear to me, which benefits
>       it would bring (or, which things it would break?)

The benefit seems obvious to me from your example: it would make
symlinks a less leaky abstraction. And I'm curious where the current
behaviour ls exhibits here is needed.

Abstractly,
Pierre
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