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

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From: "Jun T." <takimoto-j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:04:52 +0900
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Once pwd is set to '.', $PWD has different value than pwd.
Is this intensional?

/tmp% mkdir x && cd x
/tmp/x% rmdir ../x
/tmp/x% cd .
.% pwd
.
.% echo $PWD
/tmp/x
.% cd .
.% pwd
.
.% echo $PWD

.%

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