Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 20:07:09 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-lib@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c Message-ID: <199502061907.UAA17998@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199502061816.KAA06179@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 6, 95 10:16:30 am
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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.
Do what you want, but this hack makes us incompatible to the rest of
the world. (And since there are no or only a few clean-posix-only
scripts outside, it's even possible that there are some scripts
relying on the former behaviour.)
--
cheers, J"org work: --- no longer ---
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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