From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:50:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: "S_IFREG | 0644" to "(S_IFREG | 0644)" to avoid warning
Message-ID: <20101004105008.GB4738@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20101004103550.GA4738@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> The test harness uses cd -P to ensure $PWD and $(pwd) agree;

As Ævar noticed, this sentence as it stands doesn't make much sense.
The idea is rather to make $(pwd -L) and $(pwd -P) agree --- the
former is accessible through $PWD, the latter through getwd() and
/bin/pwd.