|> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
|>
|> > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Mike Galbraith wrote:
|> > > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Vladimir V. Ivanov wrote:
|> > >
|> > > > Try the following in shell prompt just for checking:
|> > > > elis# cd /proc/1
|> > > > elis# /bin/pwd
|> > > > /bin/pwd: cannot get current directory
|> > > > elis#
|> > >
|> > > Is the version you're using doing something other than getcwd()?
|> > >
|> > > [root]:# cd /proc/1
|> > > [root]:# /bin/pwd
|> > > /proc/1
|> > > [root]:# /bin/pwd --version
|> > > pwd (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
|> >
|> > I have tested the same thing with pwd from GNU sh-utils
|> > 1.16, but it doesn't work on my system.
|> >
|> > Maybe it's a glibc/libc5 thing. I'm using glibc and
|> > I have a hunch Vladimir is too..
|>
|> I'm using glibc-2.0.98, and (double-check) the binary is glibc linked.
Note that glibc-2.0.98 uses the new getcwd syscall which works even if
some parent directory is inaccessible.
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