Re: cd"": Shouldn't it fail?

[Kerin Millar]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:34:28 -0500
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/30/24 10:29 AM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> 
> >>> I'm not sure that this is accurate. In my testing, bash does not even 
> >>> perform this canonicalization step, which is optional to begin with. That 
> >>> is, it states that "an implementation may" canonicalize in the manner 
> >>> described, and prescribes a course of action to take if - and only if - 
> >>> such canonicalization is performed.
> >>
> >> It does. Try `cd /usr/////////bin' and see what ends up in $PWD.
> > 
> > Thanks. I doubted myself on this point upon reading your response to my 
> > last bug report (in which you spoke of canonicalization). I was certain 
> > that it was not material to the behaviour under discussion in this thread, 
> > though.
> 
> It's not, really, since the operand is "" and $PWD won't contain multiple
> slashes.

I said "it was not".

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Kerin Millar