On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:11:35PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:49:36 -0500, > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As already discussed upthread, anyone who wants the path can get it from > > `pwd` or local equivalent --- and that mechanism is robust (as long as > > the directory move doesn't happen while any particular instance of the > > script is running). I don't see why we should go out of our way to > > provide a bad substitute for pwd. > > I think you also still need read access to the intervening directories. > If the command works by walking up and matching inode numbers with names, > then it will break if it can't read the names. (For example /bin/pwd > breaks when it can't read a parent directories filenames.)
That's system dependant though, Linux getcwd doesn't have that problem for example. Should probably dig up some documention on which systems would be affected by this. Have a ncie day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
