Re: RFC: Change pwd to assume -L by default

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/02/2014 12:23 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> It is also the exact opposite of very long standing traditional
> behavior.  And as Pádraig noted different from some other venerable
> systems such as Solaris and I will also note HP-UX too.  Is there any
> legacy Unix where /bin/pwd returns the logical path?  What does *BSD
> do?

FreeBSD man page states pwd defaults to -P

> For me now it is just something I tend to do from the keyboard.  In my
> own bash environment I set "set -o physical" so I never have to be
> concerned about it.  But when using someone else's environment if I
> type in pwd and know that it is lying to me then I routinely type in
> /bin/pwd in order to get the real path.  I know that I could type in
> "pwd -P" now too.  But my fingers know /bin/pwd.  I can't believe I am
> the only one who does this.

OK you've convinced me.
It seems all /bin/pwd default to -P
while all builtin pwd default to -L

POSIX should probably say something about that.

The attached reverts this change.

thanks,
Pádraig.

pwd-P.patch
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