Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /proc filesystem bug in 2.1.125 | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 23 Oct 1998 11:37:47 +0200 |
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Mike Galbraith <mikeg@weiden.de> writes:
|> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: |> |> > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Mike Galbraith wrote: |> > > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Vladimir V. Ivanov wrote: |> > > |> > > > Try the following in shell prompt just for checking: |> > > > elis# cd /proc/1 |> > > > elis# /bin/pwd |> > > > /bin/pwd: cannot get current directory |> > > > elis# |> > > |> > > Is the version you're using doing something other than getcwd()? |> > > |> > > [root]:# cd /proc/1 |> > > [root]:# /bin/pwd |> > > /proc/1 |> > > [root]:# /bin/pwd --version |> > > pwd (GNU sh-utils) 1.16 |> > |> > I have tested the same thing with pwd from GNU sh-utils |> > 1.16, but it doesn't work on my system. |> > |> > Maybe it's a glibc/libc5 thing. I'm using glibc and |> > I have a hunch Vladimir is too.. |> |> I'm using glibc-2.0.98, and (double-check) the binary is glibc linked.
Note that glibc-2.0.98 uses the new getcwd syscall which works even if some parent directory is inaccessible.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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