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The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: This wording in the pwd(1) man page is unclear:     -P, --physical         avoid all symlinks "resolve all symlinks" would be much better wording. 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[86.44.211.146]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id fm9-20020a05600c0c0900b0041c23148330sm23236454wmb.10.2024.05.07.05.34.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 07 May 2024 05:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 13:34:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Beta Subject: Re: bug#70814: pwd(1) man page: Unclear "avoid" wording To: Bruce Jerrick , 70814-done@debbugs.gnu.org References: Content-Language: en-US From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A1draig_Brady?= In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 70814-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) On 07/05/2024 05:19, Bruce Jerrick wrote: > This wording in the pwd(1) man page is unclear: > >     -P, --physical >         avoid all symlinks > > "resolve all symlinks" would be much better wording. Pushed that in your name. Marking this as done. thanks, Pádraig From unknown Wed Aug 20 06:04:37 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:24:06 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator