Gnome terminal can't get into parent directoy

[Travis Hoppe]

Open a terminal and run

     mkdir a1
     mkdir a1/a2
     mkdir a1/a2/a3
     mkdir a1/a2/a3/a4
     mkdir a1/a2/a3/a4/foo-bar
     cd a1/a2/a3/a4/foo-bar
     emasc a.cpp &

Note that is `emasc` misspelled intentionally. For some reason, this will close the terminal with no response. This has been confirmed for me on two separate computers. It _does not_ work on a separate shell screen `Control-Alt-F2` and _only_ with the default terminal `Control-Shift-T`. Is something going here that I don't know about?

This happens more often than I like, but this is the only sequence of commands that reproduces the crash(?) every time.

Navigating to the directory and running bash `getcwd()` fails (sometimes...)!

    cd ~/a1/a2/a3/a4/foo-bar
    bash

With the error:

    shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
    sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory

Again, this only happens on Gnome terminal as far as I can tell.

    lsb_release -rd
    Description: Ubuntu 12.10
    Release: 12.10

[Travis Hoppe (travis-hoppe+launchpad)]

Bug was found in the Ask Ubuntu page:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/244043/bash-and-getcwd-fails-in-a-nest-directory-with-a-dash-in-the-command-line#comment303051_244043