https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314#c2 Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> 2007-10-19 19:09:53 MST --- Yeah, this is done so that pwd -> gives "/home/federico" mkdir foo mkdir foo/bar ln -s foo/bar baz cd baz pwd -> gives "baz" cd .. pwd -> gives "/home/federico" Instead of cd .. pwd -> gives "foo" -> "what the hell!?" I.e. so that changing directories across symlinks doesn't confuse the user. See http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2004-08.html#10 for a comment about this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.