Hi,
somehow the function chdir in standard library module Cwd doesn't work as advertised or I'm doing something fundamentally wrong.

perldoc Cwd says if you override chdir with Cwd's chdir, then your PWD environment stays up-to-date. But this perl snippet: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Cwd;
use Cwd 'chdir';

chdir '/x/y/z';

print getcwd(),"\n";

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called from the root dir outputs just
/
instead of
/x/y/z

And yes, /x/y/z did exist.
I tried this on Solaris8 and Suse Linux 9.1 with perl versions 5.005 and 5.8.5.

Any idea?

****** UPDATE:

I shouldn't have skipped lunch. It was a simple typo in the path name.

In reply to function chdir in Module Cwd broken? by jethro

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