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


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bug when 'cd ..' to a directory who's parent has been deleted
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:09:29 -0500
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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.

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