[MacPerl] chdir went wrong

[Berndt Wischnewski <wischnewsky@mpib-berlin.mpg.de>]

Hi, I found some strange behaviour of the MacPerl's chdir command on
partitioned harddrives.
Assume the following:

# names of two partiones of the same hardrive
$partition1 = "Stalin";
$partition2 = "Marilyn";

#going down the tree from anyplace
while( chdir("::") ) {}
# after that, you are now on the desktop

# trying to move to the second partition, but it fails
# I am ending up on the first partition, not on the second one
chdir($partition2);
$path = `pwd`;
print "$path";


Is this a bug ore a feature ?

By
Berndt

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