> FWIW, I tried the same thing with perl 5.8.8 from Debian etch, and its
> Cwd does not have the problem. But I've modified `ikiwiki-makerepo` to
> avoid using `abs_path` this way anyhow. --[[Joey]]
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+Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a violation of the specification of abs_path and I should report it to [ALTLinux](http://bugs.altlinux.org) (the distro)? --Ivan Z.
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+> That is not entirely clear to me from the documentation. It doesn't
+> say the path has to exist, but doesn't say it cannot either. --[[Joey]]