[Removed Linus and Alan from the Cc: list: I'm sure they're getting
bored by now]
Alexander Viro writes:
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > OK, I've implemented variant 2. Everything looked OK, but then I
> > noticed that pwd no longer works in subdirectories in devfs. Sigh.
>
> Very interesting. pwd should be using getcwd(2), which doesn't
> give a damn for inode numbers. If you have seriously old pwd binary
> that tries to track the thing down to root by hands - yes, it doesn't
> work.
Hm. strace suggests my pwd is walking up the path. But WTF would it
break? 2.4.7 was fine. What did I break?
Regards,
Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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