permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd

From: Harald Kirsch (kir@iitb.fhg.de)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 03:11:05 EST

Why is /bin/pwd (or getcwd) allowed to return an output in the following
command sequence?

% mkdir -p really/closed; cd really/closed; chmod 000 ..; /bin/pwd
/home1_phys/kir/sunHome/tmp/really/closed

Harald Kirsch 

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