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From: eric@mks.mks.com (Eric Gisin)
Subject: Re: replacement getwd(3).
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Date: 7 Nov 90 18:38:02
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In some article I write:
. Ideally none would break, because any properly written program
. on SysV or SunOS would use getcwd(), not getwd().

Looking at the Sun man page reveals that getcwd uses popen /bin/pwd
while getwd does things directly. That was stupid of me,
to think that Sun would implement things the obvious, efficient way.