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Re: `exec env -i OLDPWD=$OLDPWD zsh` doesn't work

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: `exec env -i OLDPWD=$OLDPWD zsh` doesn't work
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:24:13 +0000
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:19:37 +0000
Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (This bit moved to zsh-workers.)
> 
> OLDPWD seems to be slightly weirdly implemented at the moment.

PWD is similar; it does *not* reflect the internal variable containing
the shell's internal notion of the current directory (never mind what
the system thinks is the current directory which is different again).

% (PWD=/foo/bar; print ~+)
/export/home/pws/src/zsh-git/code

pws

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