getcwd() and friends.

[HansM]

In article <8136 at chinet.chi.il.us] les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
]Better yet would be a per-process *name* of the current working
]directory stored somewhere, built according the the way you
]happened to get there.  This would make getcwd() amount to printing
]static data instead of the contortions it does now,

Sure.

]                                                    and as a
]side effect, it would make ".." mean something unsuprising in the
]presence of linked directories.
]
]Les Mikesell

I am afraid that a symlink pointing to "../foo" would do very surprising
things if the meaning of ".." were decided on a per-process basis....


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