current-users: WHY sh can't cd to ./

Subject: WHY sh can't cd to ./
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/14/1998 10:45:46

It depends on "" being a name for the current directory.  Look for the text
"XXX - rethink" in /usr/src/bin/sh/cd.c.

It's more fallout from POSIX' wrong-headed treatment of the pathname "" ...