Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:04:58 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd |
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In <200002241602.KAA07287@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil) wrote: > Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>: > ...
> The program /bin/pwd gives the expected answer by reading the current directory > to find .., then reading it to locate the inode reference to the current > unnamed directory (well, known as . -> alias is looked up in .. by searching > for the inode number). This cycle repeats until /bin/pwd reaches the root > directory.
Huh ? Are you tried this REALLY ? On current Linux /bin/pwd does not touch disk as well and always works...
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