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

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <21628:Oct1400:12:2990 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>
>Oh, give it a rest. Everything in the POSIX book is a system call.

POSIX specifies an _interface_.  A system call is specific to the
implementation and not to the _interface_.  An _interface_ may be
implemented as a system call.


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