> I believe I understand what you're describing and it's been a long time
> since I've had this 'issue' but if I remember correctly, it's a function
> of your shell, which I believe is going to be bash. It tries to be
> intelligent about its symlink handling. It remembers the cd path you
> used to get to that symlink and 'cd ..' sends you back the same way you
> got in. It basically treats symlinks as real directories, not pointers.
> This can be very useful but it can also be annoying. I'll bet if you use
> tcsh, which uses a more literal interpretation of the file-structure, it
> would work as you expect. I wasn't ever interested in it enough to see
> if it could be disabled in bash.
I believe the proper option is -P as in "set -P" in bash to disable this
feature (IMHO very useful).
Cheers,
MaZe.
