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- Submitted-by: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
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- In article <11394lINNjtc@ftp.UU.NET> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
- > Since Sun provide wait4() and waitpid(), they have no excuse for
- > not using it in getcwd() (or popen()).
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- getwd() is however recommented - not getcwd().
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- GETCWD(3V) C LIBRARY FUNCTIONS GETCWD(3V)
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- NAME
- getcwd - get pathname of current working directory
- <...>
- BUGS
- Since this function uses popen() to create a pipe to the pwd
- command, it is slower than getwd() and gives poorer error
- diagnostics. getcwd() is provided only for compatibility
- with other UNIX operating systems.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 22
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