[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51388] Current directory does not change immediatly with "cd" on some systems

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #20, bug #51388 (project octave):

It also failed when I ran it on a Windows systems.  Then I added a couple of
lines to show what directory names were being compared:


--- cwdtest.cc~ 2017-07-14 10:42:38.406610572 -0400
+++ cwdtest.cc  2017-07-14 11:10:25.000259589 -0400
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@
           std::string new_pwd = octave::sys::env::get_current_directory ();
           new_pwd = octave::sys::canonicalize_file_name (new_pwd);
 
+          std::cerr << "new: " << new_pwd << std::endl;
+          std::cerr << "old: " << dir << std::endl;
+
           while (new_pwd != dir)
             {
               num_failures++;


and in my case, it was failing like this:


>> cwdtest c:\users\jwe z:\downloads
new: C:\Users\jwe
old: c:\users\jwe
cwdtest: FAIL getcwd != destdir


Those are really the same directory, but the strings obviously don't compare
equal.

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