Re: Proposal for bug 73937 / symlinks in nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 12 Jan 2003, George Farris wrote:

> While your post displayed the various behaviours of the BASH shell it
> really wasn't much help.  Take any distribution out on the net Redhat,
> Mandrake, Debian, Suse etc and see what the default setting of the shell
> is and you end up with the default behaviour.  99.99% of people will not
> only never change the value of "symlink" but won't even know it exists.
> 
> It is this behaviour we should think of following.

Normal Red Hat 8 install using bash:

$ pwd
/
$ ls -l gnome
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jul 18 21:32 gnome -> /mnt/hdb2/gnome/
$ cd gnome
$ pwd
/gnome
$ cd ..
$ pwd
/

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