/bin/pwd (getcwd) and symlinks

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Egor Duda <deo@logos-m.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Wednesday, 18 October, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> EB> --- Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru> wrote:
> >> If a current directory is symlink, getcwd() on Unix returns directory, to
> >> which this symlink points, while on Cygwin it returns directory itself:
> >>
> >> while on Unix this returns /tmp/real.
> [...]
> EB> It's implementation depedant.  On my HP-UX system it returns the symbolic
> link
> EB> name.  I could find no documentation stating that it should return the
> actual
> EB> directory.
> 
> are  you sure you've run "/bin/pwd"? Some shells (including bash) have
> internal pwd, which prints "symlinked" name.
> 

Ok.  HP-UX /bin/pwd prints the actual directory.  But, what does /bin/pwd on
Linux do?  Where is any documentation for what it should do for symlink?  I
haven't found anything useful that describes what happens for symlink.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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