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Re: "getwd" error with 19.21 and nfs served disks.

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From: Dave Schweisguth
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 21:08
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Mark London (mrl@pfc.mit.edu) wrote:
> On my SGI Indy running unix, when my current directory is an nsf served disk,
> emacs 19.21 fails to start and gives the following error:
>
> macon 40# emacs
> emacs: `getwd' failed: getwd: can't stat ..

emacs 19.28 doesn't do that in our NFS-mounted directories. (I'm using it
now.) There are several places where you can find a binary listed in the
SGI apps FAQ, at viz.tamu.edu:/pub/sgi/faq/apps.

Cheers,

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Subject: Re: "getwd" error with 19.21 and nfs served disks.
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