Re: tmux expands symlinks

2014-03-07 Thread Helmut Tessarek
Hi Nicholas, Thanks for the answers. > tmux uses file descriptors for paths now which is more robust but this > is one of the side effects. So this is the intended behavior. IMO, it's still a little bit strange, because it basically makes symlinks worthless. In most cases there is a reason why

Re: tmux expands symlinks

2014-03-07 Thread Nicholas Marriott
tmux uses file descriptors for paths now which is more robust but this is one of the side effects. There was talk of preserving PWD to give some shells a hint about symlinks but I forget what happened to it, it may be one of the two environment handling diffs in my inbox although neither looks lik

tmux expands symlinks

2014-03-06 Thread Helmut Tessarek
Something has changed in 1.9 how tmux resolves directories. I start tmux in my home directory (/home/tessus): [tessus@atvie01s 0 ~]$ pwd /home/tessus [tessus@atvie01s 0 ~]$ tmux After starting tmux, the prompt in tmux looks like this (instead of the ~): [tessus@atvie01s 0 /data/home/tessus]$ I