> > I've finished to implement a "first draft" of a Plan 9-like getcwd as
> > described in Rob Pike's paper:
> > http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html#dotdot

i think it shouldn't be on the page in the first place.  sorry for that.

> > It seems that this getcwd isn't POSIX compliant (But ksh uses a
> > builtin Plan 9-like pwd...):
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/getcwd.html
> > "The pathname copied to the array shall contain no components that are
> > symbolic links."
> > Maybe creating a new getcwd function would be better ? (eg: getcwdd...)
> > Or aborting this project ?

please abort it.

i don't see any point to introduce confusions by changing well-known,
standard-defined behaviour.  symlinks are symlinks.

plan9-like bind might be useful, but it's another topic.

YAMAMOTO Takashi