Re: [AVFS] ~/.avfs and symlinks

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:07:11 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

>> No, `pwd` and $PWD yield the same result and avfsd returns the same error.
> 
> Careful: in bash 'pwd' is a builtin command and is _not_ the same as
> '/bin/pwd'.
> 
>> Is there no way to force avfs to accept a literal path regardless of
>> whether or not it is a symlink?
> 
> The problem is that the symlink resolving will be done by the VFS
> independently of avfs or fuse.  So no, it's not possible to make avfs
> use the original path.
> 
> Miklos
> 

OK. Now we're getting somewhere! And, I am learning something to boot!

/usr/bin/pwd DOES return the proper real path. The bash command pwd does
not

peter@mars ~/foo/bar $ /usr/bin/pwd
/mnt/foo/bar
peter@mars ~/foo/bar $ pwd
/home/peter/foo/bar

and with `/usr/bin/pwd` the  ls ~/.avfs/`/usr/bin/pwd`/file.tar# works.

Now I suppose this changes things a lot! HTH and thanks for explaining the
difference between the shell pwd and the /usr/bin/pwd.

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