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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c
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>Well, I have never seen it stated that getpwd should return "the" canonical
>path, just "a absolute path".  A valid concern though.  Any ideas ?

Our manpage says that getcwd() returns "the" absolute pathname but POSIX
says that it returns "an" absolute pathname.  ++POSIX; --BSD; :-).

Bruce