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- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 86 19:14:39 est
- From: seismo!allegra!phri!roy@sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Roy Smith)
- Subject: What do you call an ex-directory? (or, "it's not dead, just sleeping")
-
- This may fall more into the category of a trivia question rather
- than something that demands being standardized, but here goes anyway. Try
- the following:
-
- % mkdir temp
- % cd temp
- % csh
- % cd ..
- % rmdir temp
- % exit
- % pwd
-
- I just did that on my 4.2 system and got back "/". If I remember
- correctly, the corresponding sequence on version 6, using sh instead of csh
- of course, would give you "". Is there a standard for what getwd() should
- return in the face of an error? Should there be (i.e. is it worth it)? It
- seems to me that the version 6 answer is somehow more accurate, even if it
- is not actually any more useful.
-
- Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy>
- System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
- 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 8
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