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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.122854.17433@virtech.uucp>
Date: 14 Oct 90 12:28:54 GMT
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In article <21628:Oct1400:12:2990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>and BSD
>stat() might not be implemented inside the kernel either. (It can be
>written in terms of lstat() and readlink(), for example.)

Actually, to maintain binary compatibility with earlier code it has
to be implemented in the kernel.

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