Does upstart chdir works with symlinks?

Question

Currently in my upstart script, chdir points to a symlink (soft).

Does chdir respect the symlink or goes directly to the symlinked directory?

The question why I ask this is because in a web server I use (Puma), pwd command now using the chdir stanza does not point to the symlink directory.

See https://github.com/puma/puma/issues/539 for more info.

Thank you.

Related: The difference between a hard link and a soft link – Parto May 26 '14 at 04:43 — Parto, May 26 '14 at 04:43
@Parto Can you draw any conclusion with soft vs hard link? – allaire May 26 '14 at 05:03 — allaire, May 26 '14 at 05:03

CameronNemo · Answer 1 · 2014-06-03T15:37:18.570

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Upstart will resolve the symlink. You cannot work around this by using a script section and cd /path.

Edit: it looks like it was figured out what the problem was. cd was setting $PWD to the symlink, not the resolved directory, and chdir was not setting $PWD at all, so the app was getting its current working directory and receiving the resolved path.

edited Jun 03 '14 at 15:37

answered Jun 02 '14 at 04:28

CameronNemo

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Does upstart chdir works with symlinks?

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