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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: umount -l <path>, getcwd and /proc/<pid>/cwd inconsistent
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:37:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jemyrhaplw.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1199675850.3156.15.camel@raven.themaw.net> (Ian Kent's message of "Mon\, 07 Jan 2008 12\:17\:30 +0900")

Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> writes:

> Basically, from a bash shell, setting working directory to a mounted
> directory all is fine with "pwd" and "/proc/<pid>/cwd". Following a
> "umount - l" on the mount "pwd" continues to return the expected string
> but "/proc/<pid>/cwd" returns an empty string.

Builtin pwd just prints $PWD.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07  3:17 umount -l <path>, getcwd and /proc/<pid>/cwd inconsistent Ian Kent
2008-01-07  8:29 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2008-01-07  8:55   ` Ian Kent
2008-01-07  9:29     ` Ian Kent
2008-01-07 10:37 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-01-09  3:10 ` Ian Kent

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