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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 21:35:02 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.231857.11668@virtech.uucp> <14976@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2714A558.14A8@marob.masa.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <2714A558.14A8@marob.masa.com> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) writes:
: /bin/pwd should be setuid root so that it doesn't get this error.

And then you get to watch it blow up as it tries to traverse an NFS filesystem
that doesn't export root privs.  Ya can't win...

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov