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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de, phk@ref.tfs.com
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c
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>> | 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 ????

More on shells not actually exporting $PWD: I guess the benchmark that
finds getcwd() slow is stupider that I first thought.  It may just test
the shell's pwd command, which may be an external command, a builtin
using getcwd, or a builtin using $PWD.

Bruce