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Re: clone fails: Could not get the current working directory

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2008, 14:43 UTC
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2008/9/24 John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>:
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> Alex Riesen wrote:
>>
>> General question: What does Sun's pwd do?
>
> It works like you'd expect.  There are no permission problems.  Even in
> directories for which I don't have read access, it will show the path.

No, not what it shows. What does it call? Which syscalls it uses so we can use them also. Or is /bin/pwd root-SUID?

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