In <200002241602.KAA07287@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil) wrote:
> Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>:
> ...
> The program /bin/pwd gives the expected answer by reading the current directory
> to find .., then reading it to locate the inode reference to the current
> unnamed directory (well, known as . -> alias is looked up in .. by searching
> for the inode number). This cycle repeats until /bin/pwd reaches the root
> directory.
Huh ? Are you tried this REALLY ? On current Linux /bin/pwd does not touch
disk as well and always works...
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