Re: Making a path absolute portably

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Eric Blake wrote:
> > It appears that $PWD is a shell extension, so I don't think so.
>
> No, POSIX requires that $PWD always be accurate, so that part is portable.

Yet I tested it with a shell by doing a cd and the value produced did 
not change.  Just because POSIX requires something does not mean that 
it is portable.  Not all shells still in use are compliant with 
current POSIX specifications.

Bob
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