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From: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pwd
Message-ID: <1587@raven.USS.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 89 15:37:18 GMT
References: <265@zircon.UUCP> <4504@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <488@bbxsda.UUCP>
Reply-To: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <488@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>>This is not true in Ultrix - pwd will fail if it encounters an 
>>unreadable directory in the path. 
>
>A quick glance at /bin/pwd shows this is also true for Xenix.

Out of curiosity I checked the systems here.  UTek (4.2BSD) is NOT
setuid root nor is the real 4.3BSD VAX here, nor is SunOS4.0 or
SunOS4.0.3.



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