From 3e89d5bb9b34861c17cd23f5efd8323eec4f0bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:15:26 +0100
Subject: 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.
---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4e90b793b..a72d3bd4a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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
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