Re: umount -l <path>, getcwd and /proc/<pid>/cwd inconsistent

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Jan 07 2008 - 05:37:40 EST


Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Basically, from a bash shell, setting working directory to a mounted
> directory all is fine with "pwd" and "/proc/<pid>/cwd". Following a
> "umount - l" on the mount "pwd" continues to return the expected string
> but "/proc/<pid>/cwd" returns an empty string.

Builtin pwd just prints $PWD.

Andreas.

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