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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: more enhancements?
Message-ID: <26017853.CD7@tct.uucp>
Date: 16 Mar 90 23:35:47 GMT
References: <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson):
>In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to
>request the addition of a "getwd" call.

Sure -- as long as the non-BSD implementation uses Doug Gwyn's
getcwd() routine instead of the library one.  If we're going to do
this, let's do it right: getcwd() (on most versions of USG Unix) does
popen("pwd","r"), which is approximately the slowest possible way to
determine the current directory.  Doug's version uses readdir() and
stat(), and is much faster (obviously).

>I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call.

And/or uname().  (Some systems have both, you know...)
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