Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)
Message-ID: <4186@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 13 Oct 90 21:08:37 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.231857.11668@virtech.uucp> <14976@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Oct11.165733.17946@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >       *  Getwd changes directories (uses the system call chdir) to figure out
 >          which directory you are in. If there is an error, getwd may not be
 >          able to change back to the directory you were in when you called it.
 >          If this occurs, any files created will be in the wrong place.

That may be true on your system - the 4.2BSD "getwd()" routine did, in
fact, use "chdir()" - but it's not ture on all systems; the 4.3BSD
"getwd()" doesn't use "chdir()".