From owner-cvs-lib Sun Feb 5 00:39:00 1995 Return-Path: cvs-lib-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA09928 for cvs-lib-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 00:39:00 -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 AAA09922; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 00:38:57 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA29060; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 00:38:33 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502050838.AAA29060@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 00:38:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-lib@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502050830.TAA12660@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 5, 95 07:30:51 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 468 Sender: cvs-lib-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >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; :-). so what's your verdict ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)