bugs in cd

[Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>]

For the cd command, POSIX 2008 requires that after all pathnames in CDPATH have 
been tested and failed in step 5, then step 6 interprets the directory argument 
relative to PWD.  In other words, this demonstrates a bug:

$ dash -c 'cd /tmp; mkdir -p foo; CDPATH=oops; cd foo; echo $?; pwd'
cd: 1: can't cd to foo
2
/tmp

while bash gets it correct:

$ bash -c 'cd /tmp; mkdir -p foo; CDPATH=oops; cd foo; echo $?; pwd'
0
/tmp/foo

Furthermore, POSIX requires that if the element in CDPATH ends in slash, that 
no additional slashes are added while forming the candidate curpath.  In light 
of the fact that //home need not be the same directory as /home (and indeed, on 
cygwin, they are distinct entities), this is also a bug:

$ dash -c 'CDPATH=/; cd home'
//home
$ bash -c 'CDPATH=/; cd home'
/home

-- 
Eric Blake


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