5 Jul
2011
5 Jul
'11
7:21 a.m.
On 7/5/11, Eric B. ebenze@hotmail.com wrote:
The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). In this case, ls .. is listing the contents of Mail/ directory - not /home/eric.
In the past, I always recall being able to use the parent identified (..) to move up one level in the directory structure whether in a symlink or not. In this case, I would have expected ls .. to list the contents of /home/eric - not /home/eric/Mail.
I believe it's normal. If I'm not mistaken, cd works based on the working path i.e. /home/eric/test so cd .. goes to /home/eric
However ls works by reading the .. inode of the directory you're in, which will always point to the real parent /home/eric/Mail no matter how you got to that directory.