Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:43:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <199606272243.QAA12001@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <7235.835914709@time.cdrom.com> References: <199606272210.QAA11833@rocky.mt.sri.com> <7235.835914709@time.cdrom.com>
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> > There's absolutely *no* reason to ignore the output of getcwd() and it > does check the directory returned for errors / permission problems. Except that it might make things that a symlinked 'shorter' and/or easier to understand. That's my suspicion. > The only thing I can figure out was that someone found AMD's path > mangling to be non-intuitive (though functional) or something and > figured they'd substitite in the value of $PWD. I think the above is similar to my symlink explanation above. Having a *really* ugly /usr/obj/foo/bar/ug/ick/wiglle/usr.sbin/traceroute can be a bit obnoxious for the obj stuff. Nate
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