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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Organization: SuSE Labs, Novell
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Bug in current -git tree causing dbus and gnome to chew up cpu time
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:03:43 -0800
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 14:39, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday February 13, greg@kroah.com wrote:
> > This causes the following to just loop over and over, incrementing the
> > pid:
> >
> > gnome-vfs-daemo(8914):
>
> That's odd.  getcwd returning an empty string.
> I can only see that happening if you do the equivalent of
>    chdir("/");
>    chroot("/somewhere");
>    getcwd(buf,sizeof(buf));

The other case I'm aware of is this:

  $ mount -o loop image /mnt
  $ cd /mnt
  $ umount -l /mnt
  $ /bin/pwd

Andreas