Re: permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 09:28:07 EST

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Harald Kirsch <kir@iitb.fhg.de> writes:

|> 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

Why not? Hint: look for sys_getcwd in the sources

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