What do you call an ex-directory?; V5N12

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

Date: Tue, 7 Jan 86 22:30:26 MST
From: seismo!hao!boulder!geoff at sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Geoffrey Clemm)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <3921 at ut-sally.UUCP> Roy Smith writes:

>From: seismo!allegra!phri!roy at sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Roy Smith)
>Subject: What do you call an ex-directory? (or, "it's not dead, just sleeping")
>I [deleted my current directory] on a 4.2 system and got back "/" frow pwd. 
>The corresponding sequence on version 6, using sh instead of csh
>of course, would give you "".
...
>It seems to me that the version 6 answer is somehow more accurate, even if it
>is not actually any more useful.

On a 4.3 system, you get back :

  pwd: getwd: can't stat .

which seems far better than either the version 6 or the 4.2 response.

Geoff Clemm

Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 12