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Re: Pb getwd on afs linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
Tue Jan 19 09:05:32 1999
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To: Gerald Britton <gbritton@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Pb getwd on afs linux
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 19 Jan 1999 14:56:29 +0100
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> Why can't arla be fixed so that ".." is available in afs directories
> such that the method of repeatedly accessing "../.." and "../../.."
> until the root would work?
".." is available in all afs directories if you run Linux 2.1 or
2.2. The problem is the inode number dependency in getcwd.
/Magnus
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