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From: jdb@mordor.s1.gov (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: .. not considered as a botch
Message-ID: <13640@mordor.s1.gov>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 19:39:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  1 19:39:26 1987
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Reply-To: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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> Most of the discussion centers on semantics for the chdir() system
> call; the "cd" shell command is used just for notational convenience.

I am disturbed by discussions of changes to the shell ("tcsh" and
"ksh", for example) which apparently cause the shell to interpret ".."
in a different way than the kernel does.  The "trapdoor" feature may
or may not be a "good thing" -- I don't have strong opinions on that
subject.  However, inconsistent interpretations of pathnames between
programs on the same machine only creates unnecessary confusion.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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