pwd

Philip Budne budd at bu-cs.BU.EDU
Wed Dec 20 15:57:39 AEST 1989


In article <263 at zircon.UUCP> davidb at Pacer.UUCP (David Barts) writes:
>
>How does /bin/pwd work?

it stats "." then opendirs ".." and stats each entry until it finds
one with the same device and i number, it then does a chdir("..");
This is repeated until "/" and "." are the same.

buit2% trapfile /bin/pwd
0x2100: stat("/",0xefff594)
0x227c: stat(".",0xefff594)
0x2438: open("..", 0) -> 3
0x2454: fstat(3,0xefff510)
0x2148: chdir("..")
0x2174: fstat(3,0xefff558)
0x23ea: close(3)
0x227c: stat(".",0xefff594)
0x2438: open("..", 0) -> 3
0x2454: fstat(3,0xefff510)
0x2148: chdir("..")
0x2174: fstat(3,0xefff558)
0x2222: stat(".",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("..",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("lost+found",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("dev",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("etc",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("bin",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("mnt",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("private",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("pub",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("tmp",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("usr",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat(".cshrc",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat(".login",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat(".profile",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("usr8",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("stand",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("vmunix",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("lib",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("private.MC68020",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("usr1",0xefff558)
0x2222: stat("usr2",0xefff558)
0x23ea: close(3)
0x227c: stat(".",0xefff594)
0x22cc: chdir("/usr2/budd")
0x4d3c: ioctl(1,0x40067408,0xefff76c) Inappropriate ioctl for device
0x3c1c: fstat(1,0xefff78c)
0x38d4: close(0)
0x38d4: close(1)
0x38d4: close(2)
/usr2/budd



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