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

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/30/24 10:42 AM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> 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".

I agree with you.

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