Kamus,
Thank you for your response. If you think this explanation should go in
the question database, I think that's great.
That notwithstanding, I would like this to be triaged as a bug. I
believe the default Ubuntu configuration should provide the $PWD
variable in the 'sudo' environment. This is a fairly important variable
to be missing, whereas there are lots of other variables of dubious
value (e.g., LS_COLORS) that are present, so I think it would make sense
to keep it.
This isn't hypothetical, by the way. I discovered this because someone
had put a line like
DEST=$(PWD)/
in a Makefile. That fails pretty horribly if PWD is missing (e.g., DEST
is set to '/').
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sudo doesn't propagate $PWD
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410022
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