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- From: yared@typhon.enst.fr (Nadim Yared)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: No .. entry in a directory
- Message-ID: <2519@ulysse.enst.fr>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:26:24 GMT
- Sender: news@ulysse.enst.fr
- Organization: Telecom Paris, France
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- All my excuses if this is a FAQ .
-
- I just mounted a disk to a subdirectory called /home (on a sun sparc). The
- problem with /home is that it does not recognize its parent directory, which
- should be / .
-
- An ls -al, issued from the directory /home, gives the error :
-
- .. entry not found.
-
- The indirect problem I get is that all functions and programs that rely
- on getwd do not work, simply because getwd() look for the complete working
- directory by issuing a series of chdir("..") . (examples of such programs is
- tar).
-
- Is there any way to solve this problem, and does anybody know how this
- could have happened ?
-
- Thanks for e-mail'ing me your advices, i'll post a summary later.
-
- Nadim YARED.
- e-mail: yared@enst.enst.fr
-