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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-06-30 10:15:26 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-06-30 10:27:48 +0100
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downloadcoreutils-3e89d5bb9b34861c17cd23f5efd8323eec4f0bab.tar.xz
pwd: assume -L mode by default, as per POSIX
* src/pwd.c (main): Adjust default mode to be "logical" and independent of the POSIXLY_CORRECT env var. (usage): Mention the default mode of operation. * doc/coreutils.texi (pwd invocation): Adjust accordingly. * tests/misc/pwd-option.sh: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
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@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
will now honor an empty or unknown TERM environment variable,
and not output colors even with --colors=always.
+ pwd now conforms to POSIX and common practice with shell builtins
+ to assume -L by default, outputting $PWD from the environment if appropriate.
+
** Improvements
chroot has better --userspec and --group look-ups, with numeric IDs never