getting the current working directory

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris):
>Note also that in the presence of various distributed file systems even
>set-UID "root" may not be enough; both NFS and RFS servers may map the
>root user-ID to some unprivileged user ID.

Just to chime in: In such environments, set-UID "root" programs have
less priviledge than the programs that call them.

I just use Doug Gwyn's getpwd() implementation.  It saves me a lot of
time and trouble.
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