GNU Core Utilities - Bugs: bug #24949, coreutils pwd not implementing...
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bug #24949: coreutils pwd not implementing latest POSIX features
Submitter: | Paul D. Smith <psmith> | ||
Submitted: | Wed 26 Nov 2008 08:50:44 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | Fixed |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | ericb |
Open/Closed: | Closed |
Mon 23 Mar 2009 08:53:18 PM UTC, comment #3: |
Eric Blake <ericb> |
Mon 01 Dec 2008 02:04:13 AM UTC, comment #2: The problem is that without -P I can't invoke pwd from things like Perl portably. If I use "my $pwd = `pwd`;" and it runs a shell and uses the shell builtin version of pwd, then I get the wrong thing (I explicitly want the "real" path; what POSIX defines "pwd -P" to return).
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Paul D. Smith <psmith> |
Thu 27 Nov 2008 05:15:48 AM UTC, comment #1: This has been brought up repeatedly in the past; see this thread:
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Eric Blake <ericb> |
Wed 26 Nov 2008 08:50:44 PM UTC, original submission:
I've noticed that in the POSIX standard (The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition), the pwd utility is expected to take two options:
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Paul D. Smith <psmith> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2009-05-19 | ericb | Status | In Progress | Fixed | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2009-03-23 | ericb | Status | None | In Progress | |
Assigned to | None | ericb | |||
2009-03-23 | ericb | Attached File | - | Added coreutils.patch1, #17780 |
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How about the attached patch?
(file #17780)