From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:52:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not trust PWD blindly
Message-ID: <86k4bpporf.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1107110057120.3379@bonsai2>

>>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

Johannes> You might be very surprised, but that is not true on the Linux system 
Johannes> where one of the 4msysgit.git test cases does _not_ break, while it does 
Johannes> on Windows.

If you ever depend on a userspace PWD to be your actual current
directory without at least stat()ing it, you've failed.

In my experience, it is *never* reliable.  It's just a hint.

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