Symbolic links and ls

[Martin Bartlett <martin nitram demon co uk>]

Try this with RH 6.

Make a symbolic link in one directory to another in another hierarchy.

cd to the symbolic link.

do 'ls ..' and you get the contents of the REAL parent directory
do 'cd ..' and you get back to the parent directory of the sym-link

This is inconsistent, no? the cd performs correctly and the ls
incorrectly, no?

Or where am I going wrong?

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