On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:04:26AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Sidenote: I'm curious about the reason $(pwd) is used in some > places while $PWD seems fine in others, so it doesn't seem to be > a portability problem. I chose $PWD since it's faster. It sometimes matters; one is a Windows path (with "C:\", etc) and one is a Unix-style path. Many spots are happy with either type, but it sometimes bites us when doing string comparisons, or in a few specific cases. See https://lore.kernel.org/git/d36d8b51-f2d7-a2f5-89ea-369f49556e10@xxxxxxxx/ for an example. -Peff