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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: experimental coreutils-5.94-4
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On Feb 28 07:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> This version fixes the coreutils bug in pwd when called from /, or from
> anywhere in the // hierarchy.  [...]

What happened to the simple, but *always* working idea to call getcwd in
pwd to evaluate the current working directory?  The new implementation
looks a bit maniac.


Corinna

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