Ultrix symbolic link strangeness...

[Frotz]

Greeting Netters...

The following is a description of an annoyance bug.  If you have any
comments or workarounds, please speak up. 

Problem setup:	% ln -s /symbolic_dir /dir1/real_dir
		% cd /symbolic_dir
		% pwd

Problem:	The output from pwd is "/symbolic_dir" not "/dir1/real_dir"
		as expected.

Here are the vitals:

   4.3BSD 11/780	Ultrix 3.1 uVax 3100	Ultrix 4.1 uVax 3100
Oldest partition name:	Newer partition name:	Newest partition name:
----------------------	---------------------	----------------------
/a (real)
/a (ln -s)		/graph (real)
/a (ln -s)		/graph (ln -s)		/work2 (real)


Requirement:	provide a path for /a/graph/bin for hardwired code...;-(

In the current situation we have:

	Real directories	Symbolic links
	----------------	--------------
	/>			@/a -> /work2
	/work2>			@graph -> /work2
	/work2/bin>		

What we used to get:

	cd /a/graph/bin; pwd	# returned /work2/bin

What we get now:

	cd /a/graph/bin; pwd	# returns /a/bin

Why /a?  Why not /work2 as before?  What I have done?  Any ideas?
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