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

[Chet Ramey]

In article <23012:Oct1019:12:2790 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>In article <1990Oct9.122813.1329 at cbnews.att.com> jbr0 at cbnews.att.com (joseph.a.brownlee) writes:
>  [ why is getpwd() implemented as `pwd` in System V? ]
>
>Because there's no getwd() system call to have the kernel do the job.

BSD doesn't have one either; it's a library routine, at least through
4.3-tahoe.

By the way, the name of the Posix (and S5) routine is getcwd().

Chet
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