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Re: pwd fails to traverse unreadable directory
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Eric Blake |
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Re: pwd fails to traverse unreadable directory |
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Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:44:21 -0700 |
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According to Jim Meyering on 2/4/2007 4:57 AM:
> I wrote:
> ...
>> I'll add tests to coreutils some time next week.
>
> I've added the test.
> However, in its current state, it will fail on systems with
> inadequate getcwd. So before long, I'll have to find a work-around.
> Either skip the test on such systems, or maybe change gnulib's getcwd.c
> to try the value of $PWD from the environment when all else fails.
We should be reading $PWD anyway, in order to implement pwd -L vs. pwd -P.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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