/bin/pwd

[Don Lewis]

In article <13858 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <2497 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
>-In article <13851 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>->No, on most systems there is no easier way than the obvious one of
>->seeing where a succession of ".."s gets you.
>-That was what I considered "the easy way."  But how do you do that?
>-For example, how do you find out the name of "."?  You could find out
>-its inode, and then check the previous directory to see which name
>-matches its inode; but that only works until you get to the root of the
>-filesystem your directory is mounted in (I don't mean "/").  What then?  Do
>-you have to check /etc/mtab?
>
>Yes, you got it, exactly.

This scheme fails badly in the presence if Sun's loopback mounts because
the filesystem can be mounted in multiple places.
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