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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)
Message-ID: <3554@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Oct 90 17:30:09 GMT
References: <1977@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Oct7.001518.14216@diku.dk> <1990Oct11.012643.11274@diku.dk> <11478@alice.att.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <11478@alice.att.com> andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
> as has been pointed out, a safe getpwd() routine has to fork so that
> chdir failures do not ruin the calling program's working dir.

Why does getpwd() have to chdir()?

-- Richard
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