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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Inside PWD
Message-ID: <11324@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Oct 89 06:04:47 GMT
References: <166@volvo.vd.volvo.se> <1281@virtech.UUCP> <11310@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12291@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12291@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> gsf@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Glenn Fowler[drew]) writes:
>the environment c.w.d. can be verified by two quick stat()'s at the top of
>getcwd():

Yes, it could, but when the stat check fails then you'd have to resort
to one of the other methods; getenv("PWD") in itself is insufficient.