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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Subject: Re: umount -l <path>, getcwd and /proc/<pid>/cwd inconsistent
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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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