From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 27 15:34:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02714 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02705 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA07892; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:33:58 -0700 (PDT) To: scott@statsci.com cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:08:54 PDT." Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:33:58 -0700 Message-ID: <7890.835914838@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > user's view of the world. So, if you're doing a "tell me what my current > directory is" function and that is to be displayed back to the user, it'd > be nice to show the user something that the user expects to see. So, now, Nice, but hard to make work in all instances. I'll take robustness over a nice appearance. :-) > I don't know enough about the internals and all of the places that this is > used to be able to say if it'd be safe to revert the behavior in 'make' > itself, but maybe there could be a function added that just returns the > "real" getcwd() (or just grab the output from a /bin/pwd run). It did do this, the problem is that it then overlayed a perfectly good "trusted" value for the current directory and then spammed over it with the value of $PWD. Jordan