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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
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Subject: Re: How to find working directory?
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Date: 3 Aug 90 13:36:00 GMT
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In article <8974@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
:In article <139945@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> petolino@joe.Eng.Sun.COM (Joe Petolino) writes:
:: The programs I'm invoking after the chdir() expect $PWD to be accurate.
:
:Then the programs you're invoking are highly non-portable.  Only certain
:shells keep track of PWD.  Any C program that uses chdir and then invokes
:one of these programs will confuse it.
:
:I stop just short of saying the programs are busted.
:
:Larry

GNU Emacs uses PWD if it exists.  my normal login shell updates PWD
but /bin/csh doesn't (under 4.3BSD) so when i fire up emacs after
su'ing to another user, emacs gets the wrong directory.  i'd say this
is busted.

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