Re: bug when 'cd ..' to a directory who's parent has been deleted

[Mike Frysinger]

On 09 Feb 2016 12:22, Odd Beck wrote:
> We all use our number crunching slaves differently, so I have never seen it
> until yesterday, but if it's common then there might be a valid reason to
> investigate this issue and maybe do some bugfixin' :)

sorry, but my posting wasn't to say i think the current behavior in bash
is wrong.  i agree w/Chet that when you try to do `cd ..` in a dir that
has been disconnected from the active filesystem namespace, the behavior
is largely to be expected.  If $PWD has no actual parent, then you'll
get errors.  Falling back to ${PWD%/*} might be nice, but even then it
would be superficial until you managed to get back to the actual fs.
-mike

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