> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Maciej Zenczykowski
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: When ".." isn't the same? (not a problem
>
> > 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).
Indeed --
-P If set, the shell does not follow symbolic links when executing
commands such as cd that change the current working directory. It uses
the physical directory structure instead. By default, bash follows the
logical chain of directories when performing commands which
change the current directory.
--
Marc
