Re: Builtins should canonicalize path arguments

[Ondrej Oprala]

On 01/09/2014 11:06 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 01/09/2014 07:19 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > 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.
> See also the coreutils realpath command which might be useful in the general 
> case:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/realpath-invocation.html
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
Thank you all for the clarification. I wasn't aware of bash's 
physical/logical approach
towards symlinks.
Have a nice day,
Ondrej