Hi!
> Richard, I think the question is different. It is not root vs user.
>
> It is the behaviour of linux pwd. It does not go over the directory tree like
> solaris pwd and others. It reads '.' and prints it. F.e. sol reads and tries to
> resolve symlinks. And bummers.
>
> Try the following:
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/crap/crap1 ; ln -s /tmp/crap /tmp/crap2 ; cd /tmp/crap2/crap1 ;
> pwd
>
> on linux it returns /tmp/crap2/crap1
> on solaris it returns /tmp/crap/crap1
>
> If permissions on crap are 000 solaris bummersm, linux does not. This is on
> debian-potato and sol 2.6 respectively.
>
> And this is gnu fileutils not linux as such.
>
> In btw1: at least in some slackware (2.?) long ago pwd was working properly if
> sol's behaviour is considered proper.
Linux got in-kernel getcwd(), which does not care about permissions.
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