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Re: sun4 8.3.26: pwd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Sep 18 00:29:30 2000

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:25:30 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200009180425.AAA12091@Bearing-An-Hourglass.mit.edu>
To: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[17675] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>



Hi,

This one seems to be fixed in 8.4.  I'm going to close it now.

	Jonathon



>   What's wrong:
>	   Something gets confused and as a result, pwd fails in the moved
>	   directory. This happens for pwd both in /usr/bin and in the gnu
>	   locker, but not for the built-in pwd in bash. Here's what happens:
>
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~1> fs flushv .
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~2> mkdir -p foo/bar
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~3> cd foo/bar
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~/foo/bar4> /usr/bin/pwd
>   /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/o/kolya/foo/bar
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~/foo/bar5> cd ..
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~/foo6> mv bar ../
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~/foo7> cd ../bar
>   contents-vnder-pressvre~/bar8> /usr/bin/pwd
>   pwd: cannot determine current directory!
>

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