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I am running Emacs 18.58 under Ultrix 4.2 here (on a DECstation
5000/133) and encountered the following peculiar problem.  When I "su
root", change to another directory, and invoke emacs, the value of
default-directory is initialized to what my directory was _before_ the
su, making things rather annoying when I use find-file, for example.

Peeking at files.el and startup.el tells me that Emacs initializes
default-directory on startup to the value of the PWD environment
variable, which is inherited from the environment of its parent
process.  I suspect this is caused by the fact that my login shell is
tcsh while root's is csh.

Naturally, I could avoid this by changing either my login shell or
root's, or doing "su - root" rather than "su root".  But it doesn't
seem like I should HAVE to.  Any thoughts?

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