Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)

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From: Larry Wall
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 21:35

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In article <2714A558.14A8@marob.masa.com> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) writes:
: /bin/pwd should be setuid root so that it doesn't get this error.

And then you get to watch it blow up as it tries to traverse an NFS filesystem
that doesn't export root privs.  Ya can't win...

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov

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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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Subject: Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 21:35:02 GMT
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