On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:19:50PM +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
Andy, it sounds like an issue with symlinks. I have come across this before. is the ~/incomming directory a symlink? I ask this as I have run into this issue when working from symlink directories.
Is this normal operation or is this a bug? I would definetly consider this a bug. Will do research on this later.
It's a bash thing. Look for the -P option in the bash man page. (Specifically, -P for cd, pwd, and set.)
I looked through the man bash and I see the issue but it doesn't fix the problem. If you are in a linked directory and want to cp or mv a file using the linked paths, it just does not work. If you set the -P option (as I understand it) you are moved to the actual directory and pwd would show this. In my opinion, I would expect symlinks to act as actual directories and the paths would follow those issues.
I now know why I am having problems with a couple of things I an trying to do from the CLI. The more I think about it, the more it is a bug. I will wait until I install FC4 to see if this is still an issue.
-- Robin Laing
