| > From: "Mark D. Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:31:13 -0500 | > | > I've attached a patch that does this. It passes the test suite, so if | > I don't hear any objections in the next couple of days, I'll commit | > this to CVS. | | I don't like this patch, for two reasons: | | * The output of "/bin/pwd" is often much uglier than the output of | "pwd" (or $PWD). | | * Sometimes /bin/pwd fails when plain pwd would succeed. Here's | a contrived example: | | $ cd /tmp | $ mkdir -p d/e | $ cd d/e | $ chmod 0 /tmp/d | $ pwd | /tmp/d/e | $ /bin/pwd | pwd: cannot determine current directory! | | More-realistic examples are quite common in practice.
Wow. Paul, would you install this in autoconf.texi? I'm at work, and cut from the internet: no ssh, no cvs, just mail and web :(
