Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sun Oct 14 22:28:54 AEST 1990


In article <21628:Oct1400:12:2990 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>and BSD
>stat() might not be implemented inside the kernel either. (It can be
>written in terms of lstat() and readlink(), for example.)

Actually, to maintain binary compatibility with earlier code it has
to be implemented in the kernel.

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