[TUHS] moving directories in svr2

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:59 AM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:

> To expand on this a bit, the “cd ..” case can be handled by not storing a
> ..
> link in a dir. in the first place! Store the $PWD path in the u struct.
> Then
> cd .. would simply lop off the last component, if one exists. Thus .. takes
> you back only on the path you used! This also takes care of the issue with
> symlinks (& does what csh did in user code).

Which is exactly the problem  ...   Your solution works as a runtime fix,
sometimes.  It's hardly sufficient and why I hate symlinks thank you.
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