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 I want something to use the
symlink instead of the expanded (canonicalized) directory name.
> 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 like it.
As I mentioned above, there might be reasons why someone wanted the symlink to
be used, thus something like a config variable to not expand the symlink would
be great. Shouldn't be that hard to implement -> if config var set, use cwd()
instead of readlink() in osdep_get_cwd.
> You could try fiddling with putting PWD in update-environment and see if
> that helps, or stick something like this in your .profile (this is what
> I used to do when my home was a symlink):
>
> [ "x${PWD#/data/home/}" != "x$PWD" ] && cd ~/${PWD#/data/home/}
This is not a bad idea and a nice work around, although I had to change it to
the following to get it to work:
[ "x${PWD#/data/home/}" != "x$PWD" ] && cd /home/${PWD#/data/home/}
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Helmut
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