On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:48:47PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > > >> I know it is bad form replying to oneself, but, after some > >> sleep, I realize that the provenance of CURDIR being a convenience > >> variable set by GNU make is as valid as anything POSIX says. > > Branden> What? Manoj, prone to knee-jerk conservativism? Never. > > I was not aware that PWD was arch conservatism and CURDIR was > avante-garde neo-programming. I wasn't either, but apparently you were: >> So, what is the provenance of this CURDIR variable? Has it >> been blessed by POSIX? indeed not. However, I see that both $PWD and >> the pwd utility are sanctioned by POSIX; so for maximal portability >> scripts should *NOT* use CURDIR, the should either use PWD, or call >> pwd themselves, like the example did. > Either you have a very strange system of determining novelty, or, more > likely, you have a knee jerk mechanism of ``Brand Manoj with > conservatism'' without really thinking about the issue. Either you are prone to presenting false alternatives, or once again your sense of humor is too subtle for me... -- G. Branden Robinson | To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to unlearn branden@debian.org | old falsehoods. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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