Re: logical paths

[Kartik K. Agaram]

> ..I'm afraid you may be biting off more than you can chew.  Adding 
> logical behavior to all the coreutils.. ..just sounds like a huge task 
> to me, with minimal benefits.
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> Chet Ramey's comments* on bug-bash are still pertinent - when worried
> about logical vs. physical filename tab-completion in the shell, it is 
> easier to use the existing shell feature of 'set -o physical' to 
> temporarily force the shell to physical during the calculation of the 
> filenames to tab-complete, than it is to teach every utility the 
> difference between logical and physical.

Thanks for the warning. You're right, it's not that big a deal.

> ..it sounds invasive enough that you would need to assign copyright to 
> FSF if you ever expected it to be incorporated..

That's not a problem, of course.

Thanks,
Kartik

* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/9273