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Re: Builtins should canonicalize path arguments
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Builtins should canonicalize path arguments |
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Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:19:20 -0500 |
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On 1/9/14 12:42 PM, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> Hi, I investigated this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987975
> and found out that some of bash's builtins (source at the very least) do
> not canonicalize
> pathnames given as arguments (builtin "open" is instead fed with the path -
> failing in the BZ case).
> The builtin "cd" seems to handle relative paths correctly. I think it would
> be reasonable to take part of
> cd's canonicalization code and use it in other builtins as well. I'd gladly
> take care of the patch.
> Would upstream consider this a good approach?
I have reservations. If the user in question wants consistent behavior,
I suggest he use `set -o physical' for a while and see if it does what
he wants. The solution might be that simple.
Chet
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