ksh attempts to cd into non-existent cdpath before trying argument first about oksh HOT 11 CLOSED

I will encourage you to write that manual page change you suggested in your latest email.

No way! My wording is horrible and should NOT end up in ksh man pages, plus I don't know how I would even note it in the first place.

No diff is ever ready the first time. Write it, submit it, be open to feedback, revise and refine. And it will get in.

from oksh.

I can reproduce this on stock OpenBSD. Please send a bug report to the tech@ mailing list.

from oksh.

um... i'm not really an OpenBSD user and i have no idea how to use a mailing list, i've tried a few months ago to submit a patch but it never reached

is it okay if you can do it? sorry

from oksh.

OK. Can you write up more about what is happening here and what you'd expect to happen?

from oksh.

i simply wanted to cd into a directory i had made that is outside of the CDPATH, i expected to cd into the directory that is in the cwd, but it failed since it simply attempted to look in the CDPATHs for a directory, since the given argument was not a literal absolute path (./foo), it fails; as it had no matching directory in the available CDPATHS with a foo directory.

from oksh.

Thanks. That's helpful.

from oksh.

has the mail been sent to the mailing list? if not, i would like to try myself to send and see what happens.

from oksh.

I have not sent any emails yet. Feel free to send your email.

from oksh.

they ultimately decided it wasn't a bug.

All a bit of a mess isn't it. ksh's behaviour does at least mean you're less likely to change to an unexpected directory.

aditionally, i got a solution to another problem i had.

So setting CDPATH=:/tmp or CDPATH=.:/tmp will work as expected.

you can see the archive here. i would like to see what you think about it.

from oksh.

they ultimately decided it wasn't a bug.

All a bit of a mess isn't it. ksh's behaviour does at least mean you're less likely to change to an unexpected directory.

aditionally, i got a solution to another problem i had.

So setting CDPATH=:/tmp or CDPATH=.:/tmp will work as expected.

you can see the archive here. i would like to see what you think about it.

I'm an OpenBSD developer myself, so yes I read the whole thread as it happened.
My feelings are the same as tb@'s, I'm indifferent as to whether or not the behavior gets changed. I will encourage you to write that manual page change you suggested in your latest email.

from oksh.

I will encourage you to write that manual page change you suggested in your latest email.

No way! My wording is horrible and should NOT end up in ksh man pages, plus I don't know how I would even note it in the first place.

from oksh.