pwd

Axel Fischer fischer at utower.gopas.sub.org
Mon Dec 25 01:02:54 AEST 1989


scott at bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:

>>< /bin/pwd is setuid to root so it can handle unreadable directories
>>< in the path.
>>
>>This is not true in Ultrix - pwd will fail if it encounters an 
>>unreadable directory in the path. 

>A quick glance at /bin/pwd shows this is also true for Xenix.

Also not true for Interactive 2.02 (SYSV.3)

-Axel
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