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

[Jim Burns]

in article <1990Oct10.231857.11668 at virtech.uucp>, cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) says:
> I don't know the reason for making it a call to popen(),  one reason may
> have been security (pwd could be a setuid pgm and do things that a 
> function call couldn't).

Not on my system (see below). And what about those shells that have pwd
builtin? My shell's pwd seems to work fine, and the shell isn't setuid
either.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        16384 Nov 17  1989 /bin/pwd*
-rwxrwxr-x  2 root       152692 Sep 18 11:51 /usr/local/bin/ksh*
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