[hacknews] getwd

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/05/84)

New utility routine in the C library:  getwd(3).  The subroutine equivalent
of pwd(1) (in fact, it invokes pwd if it gets desperate).  See getwd(3)
manual page for details.  This is the preferred way to find out what
directory a program is in.  Note that it needs the -lndir compilation
option, to pick up the directory(3) routines.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (08/22/84)

The getwd(3) routine has been revised to avoid using the shell to invoke
pwd(1).  This lets it pick up /bin/pwd regardless of "smart" shell code
that tries to do pwd as a built-in function.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry