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Re: pushd/popd/dirs for es



> I'd like to know what other people think of the issue.

The `right' place to fix this is in the kernel :-)/2
But seriously, file name resolution in a shell should be
consistent with what the kernel does so that there are no
surprises.  For example,
	rm -rf ../foo
should remove the same foo directory as in
	cd ..
	rm -rf foo
and a C program that does
	system("rm -rf foo");

-- bakul

PS: I happen to like treating `<path>/foo/..' as equivalent to
    `<path>'  but not at the expense of inconsistency.