Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:52:02 +0200
Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 16:34, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > However, I've always been a little puzzled about the decision to set
> > $PWD to "." in this case.  Bash remembers the relative location:
> 
> Just to make sure this does not get lost, do we agree that not
> changing $PWD to a literal dot would make sense? Escalating the ENOENT
> to the user is probably the best approach.

Sounds OK.  Silently failing and changing the directory reported doesn't
really do a lot of good to anyone.

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