Re: bugs in cd

[Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>]

Herbert Xu <herbert <at> gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

> > In other words, if CDPATH is "/", then you should not append any
> > additional <slash> characters, such that you end up checking for the
> > existence of "/foo", not "//foo".
> 
> Fair enough.  However, I noticed that they haven't fixed up PATH
> to do the same thing.

Most likely an unintentional oversight.  But to make sure, I've created a 
defect report:

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=139

https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?
CALLER=index.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=12720

[the former link may require free registration with the Austin group Mantis 
tracker; the latter is the public email summary generated from my edits]

> Since we use the same function for PATH and CDPATH, I'm not going
> to make any changes until POSIX becomes consistent in this respect.

Fair enough; I'll keep you posted when the Austin group rules on my report.

-- 
Eric Blake