Pipeline's dir() does not work with symlinks

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      I'm currently trying to do this as a way of getting around bash's interpreter path length restrictions. Since Jenkins Pipeline generates an obscenely long workspace name, I figured the easiest solution would be to create a symlink in /tmp and just change directory into it. Unfortunately, this does not work.

      This is easy to reproduce, just run the following Pipeline job:

      node {
    def id = UUID.randomUUID().toString()
    def symlink = "/tmp/${id}"
    sh("ln -s ${pwd()} ${symlink}")
    sh("ls -lah /tmp")
    dir(symlink) {
        println("Jenkins thinks we are in ${pwd()}")
        sh('echo "But we are actually in `pwd`"')
        sh("ls -lah /tmp")
    }
    sh("rm -fr /tmp/${id}")
}

       

      If you run that, you'll also see that Jenkins generates this odd directory when you try to change into the symlink:

       

      + ls -lah /tmp
total 3.0M
drwxrwxrwt 43 root     root     4.0K Oct 16 18:36 .
dr-xr-xr-x 27 root     root     4.0K Oct 16 18:10 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jenkins  jenkins    40 Oct 16 18:36 136ef826-e9a1-479e-9074-1de076349252 -> /var/build/workspace/jenkinsfile-sandbox
drwxr-xr-x  3 jenkins  jenkins  4.0K Oct 16 18:36 136ef826-e9a1-479e-9074-1de076349252@tmp

       

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            Reporter:
            Taylor Jones
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