Comment 9 for bug 977232

On Sa, 14 Apr 2012, David Gómez wrote:
> No. I mean, if you open a sakura terminal, and you type "bash" (that is,
> a subshell) in any given tab, and under the newly created shell you open
> new tabs, CWD won't be kept. That's expected behaviour.

Of course, sorry that I didn't grasp that. Yes, I agree.

> But, looking at your 'ps' output, you don't have any subshells running.
> I don't know why the CWD is not being kept in your system. In my tests
> CWD is changed correctly.

Hmmm, strange, ok ...

> Just do one more test to see if we can find the cause. Launch a sakura
> terminal with just one tab, and change to a directory different from
> your $HOME. Sent me the output of 'ls -l /proc/pid' where pid will be
> the process id of the bash shell running as a child of the sakura
> proccess.

Iam now in /tmp and typed ls -l /proc/pid and received a list of files:
[/tmp] ls -l /proc/15374
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 autogroup
-r-------- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 auxv
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 cgroup
--w------- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 clear_refs
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 cmdline
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 comm
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 coredump_filter
lrwxrwxrwx 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 cwd -> /tmp/
-r-------- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 environ
lrwxrwxrwx 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 exe -> /bin/bash*
dr-x------ 2 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:13 fd/
dr-x------ 2 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 fdinfo/
-r-------- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 io
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 limits
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 loginuid
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 maps
-rw------- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 mem
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 mountinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 mounts
-r-------- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 mountstats
dr-xr-xr-x 4 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 net/
dr-x--x--x 2 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 ns/
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 oom_adj
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 oom_score
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 oom_score_adj
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 pagemap
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 personality
lrwxrwxrwx 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 root -> //
-rw-r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 sched
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 sessionid
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 smaps
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 stack
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 stat
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 statm
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 status
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 syscall
dr-xr-xr-x 3 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 task/
-r--r--r-- 1 norbert norbert 0 Apr 15 21:14 wchan
[/tmp]

Does this help in any way?

Best wishes

Norbert
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