Strange symbolic link behaviour?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> ls is behaving correctly. Bash is presenting a ridiculous fiction to
> you via its "pwd" builtin, which lies. Try doing your test above
> again, and wherever you type "pwd", also run "/bin/pwd" immediately
> afterwards. Observe the difference: /bin/pwd tells you the truth and
> pwd tells you something easy to remember, but not the truth.

Or try:

pwd -P

(see "help pwd" from the Shell)

poc