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bug#58080: 29.0.50; Don't hard-code path to pwd


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#58080: 29.0.50; Don't hard-code path to pwd
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:34:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)

On Sep 26 2022, Gregory Heytings wrote:

> The difference is that /bin/pwd gives, unlike pwd, the "true" path
> (without symlinks).

Like pwd -P.  Though if $PWD is no longer accurate, pwd works like pwd -P.

> Not sure if it's important enough to justify the use of /bin/pwd,
> though.  The use of /bin/pwd instead of pwd dates from 8672a560f6 by
> RMS in 1994.

pwd -P didn't yet exist back then.

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