Re: [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races

[Alan Cox]

> > Very interesting. pwd should be using getcwd(2), which doesn't
> > give a damn for inode numbers. If you have seriously old pwd binary
> > that tries to track the thing down to root by hands - yes, it doesn't
> > work.
> 
> Hm. strace suggests my pwd is walking up the path. But WTF would it
> break? 2.4.7 was fine. What did I break?

Sounds like you are using libc5. The old style pwd should be reliable but
its much slower and can't see across protected directory paths

Alan