> Not to pile on...  I find it useful that some shells
> track "logical" CWD
> (usually in an environment variable named "PWD").
> 
> But I do end up executing /bin/pwd to find my actual
> CWD.  Ideally, I
> think, maybe, the shell built-in pwd should report
> the real CWD and I'd
> use "echo $PWD" when I want the logical CWD.

Some of us want $PWD to track the name that we specified
to `cd',  and not to resolve symlinks each time.  What do the
standards say here?
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