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

[Richard Tobin]

In article <11478 at alice.att.com> andrew at alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
> as has been pointed out, a safe getpwd() routine has to fork so that
> chdir failures do not ruin the calling program's working dir.

Why does getpwd() have to chdir()?

-- Richard
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