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Re: Strange problem, symlinks and parent dirs



Fabio Tranchitella wrote:

> This is exactly what I was thinking of about this problem, but if run
> "cd .." the symlink works as a normal directory, it is transparent. 
> So my question is: is there any possibility to fix that? Is it a 
> kernel problem, a pwd issue, a shell issue or what?

The fact that symlinks and ".." act confusingly is a Unix design issue
and is unlikely to be fixed.  It's your shell that makes "cd .." act
as you expect, but it can only do that for commands built into the
shell.

Cameron.

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