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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.programmer,alt.sys.sun
Subject: replacement getwd(3).
Summary: What will break if getwd() returns a 'soft' path?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 09:57:49 GMT
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I've written a replacement getwd(3) for SunOS 4.x that returns ~user/tail
(with ~user expanded as in /etc/passwd) if the current directory
is a subdirectory of a user's home directory.
[The original might return: /tmp_mnt/foo/bar/bletch/usrs/casper/dir
 the new returns /usr/casper/dir]

I've installed it in my own copy of the shared library and thinks seem
to work fine.

My question is: what utilities (if any) will break because of this?

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