From owner-cvs-lib Mon Feb 6 12:00:31 1995 Return-Path: cvs-lib-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA18973 for cvs-lib-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:00:31 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18962; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:00:27 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA06469; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 11:59:11 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502061959.LAA06469@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 11:59:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-lib@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502061907.UAA17998@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 6, 95 08:07:09 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 609 Sender: cvs-lib-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > | > | > Without this feature, there's no easy way to find out the canonical > | ^^^^ > | With you mean > > obviously. :-] > > | > path name, except of manually tracking each single directory level in > | > the returned absolute path name. > | > | not true: > | PWD=X /bin/pwd > > Huh? Nope, the whole trick does only work since the shell clobbers > PWD immediately, so the above won't work. go read the source OK ???? -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)