Re: bug in pwd on Mandrake Linux 9.2

[Bob Proulx]

Seán McGarraghy wrote:
> Thanks very much for your comprehensive reply, and the explanation: I am now 
> clear on how the builtin works.

Happy to have helped.  But note that the man says:

       NOTE:  your  shell may have its own version of pwd which will supersede
       the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
       for details about the options it supports.

Basically just a pointer.  But what else is there to say?

> Re your question: I got the version number from the man page for pwd.  It 
> said it was GNU pwd and gave address@hidden as the contact email.

Ah, that explains it.  I am using to seeing version numbers like this:

  /bin/pwd --version
  pwd (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0

And of course the built-in does not use that option.

> Apologies for raising as a bug something that is actually reasonable 
> behaviour!

No problem at all.  The rule is "See one, Do one, Teach one."  So now
you need to help someone else with a problem in the future.  :-)

Bob