Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /bin/pwd
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.233801.25715@virtech.uucp>
Date: 14 Sep 90 23:38:01 GMT
References: <2488@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <13851@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2497@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <13858@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <13858@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <2497@idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
>-matches its inode; but that only works until you get to the root of the
>-filesystem your directory is mounted in (I don't mean "/").  What then?  Do
>-you have to check /etc/mtab?
>
>Yes, you got it, exactly.

Actually you can use the device number portion.  (get the device number from
the current directory and then stat each entry in the .. directory looking
for an entry on the same device).


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