Describe the bug

the tests of #8525 do not pass.

according to the investigations of @fdncred in the comments of the PR

This is what's going on.

> assert ($base_path == $env.DIRS_LIST.0) "list is just pwd after initialization"
Error:
  × list is just pwd after initialization
   ╭─[entry #76:1:1]
 1 │ assert ($base_path == $env.DIRS_LIST.0) "list is just pwd after initialization"
   ·        ────────────────┬───────────────
   ·                        ╰── It is not true.
   ╰────

> $base_path
/var/folders/m1/x0gp9jy51s146ttxtz7jlpxh0000gn/T/test_dirs_14f52f6b-23fd-4324-a29e-b7f7f0ca314d
> $env.DIRS_LIST.0
/private/var/folders/m1/x0gp9jy51s146ttxtz7jlpxh0000gn/T/test_dirs_14f52f6b-23fd-4324-a29e-b7f7f0ca314d

/tmp is a symlink

^ls -al /tmp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Feb  9 03:39 /tmp -> private/tmp

How to reproduce

1. have a Mac ( 👀 )
2. run

let base_path = (($nu.temp-path) | path join $"test_dirs_(random uuid)" | path expand )
mkdir $base_path
cd $base_path

use /path/to/crates/nu-utils/standard_library/std.nu assert
assert (1 == ($env.DIRS_LIST | length))

3. observe the error

Expected behavior

assert (1 == ($env.DIRS_LIST | length))

should work after any use std.nu ...

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