Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 12:05:51 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-lib@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c Message-ID: <199502062005.MAA10990@precipice.Shockwave.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Feb 1995 11:59:11 PST." <199502061959.LAA06469@ref.tfs.com>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c go read the source OK ???? The big thing here is that we're changing an operating paradigm. No one's arguing that it isn't easy to override this, at least in a shell script, but people and scripts DON'T expect this behavior. I myself have written scripts depending on the fact that pwd is going to return me the cannonical path to a file rather than following slimelinks. I feel this change is a loser... I feel very uncomfortable changing 15 years of historical behavior for a minor performance gain... that's not the way performance gains are supposed to be eeked out.
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