bug in pwd on Mandrake Linux 9.2

[Seán McGarraghy]

Hi,

I am running Mandrake Linux 9.2, the version of pwd is 

pwd 5.0 March 2003

I found the following behaviour (running as root at the command line) 

address@hidden linux32]# pwd
/usr/local/lindoapi/bin/linux32
address@hidden linux32]# mv ../../../lindoapi ../../../lindoapi3.0
address@hidden linux32]# pwd
/usr/local/lindoapi/bin/linux32
address@hidden linux32]# ls -al /usr/local/lin*
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root          368 Mar  4 17:20 lindoapi3.0/

That is, I renamed a directory further up the path of the current working 
directory, but pwd didn't catch this (although ls shows it happened).

I don't know if this bug is still in later versions, but I thought you should 
know.  Its severity is not too big.

Regards,

Sean

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Dr Seán McGarraghy
Dept of Management Information Systems
University College Dublin
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