Re: Solaris 10: Catching errors of builtin "cd" command in "/bin/sh"

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On 2025-07-26 18:33, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> A very old bug in the Solaris bug database, originally filed in 1994 
> against
> both SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and Solaris 2.3 claims that this is intentional 
> behavior

Oh my, that's a blast from the past.

Thanks, Farblos, for pointing out this gotcha. I installed the attached 
to document it, plus some other gotchas I noticed nearby.

You'd think cd would be simple but nooooo, it confused even its original 
inventors. See 
<https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html> and 
look for "chdir".
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