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authordg <dg@FreeBSD.org>1995-02-07 05:52:57 +0000
committerdg <dg@FreeBSD.org>1995-02-07 05:52:57 +0000
commit82caf4596d03519c53248b01d882eaa44de79bd6 (patch)
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parent0a7e37f6d4abef64b4fec18a33135850df4a37cf (diff)
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Backed out Keith Bostic's getcwd/$PWD hack. It is causing things to break
all over the place.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/getcwd.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/getcwd.38
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getcwd.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getcwd.3
index 10ae3cd..b66aa1c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/getcwd.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/getcwd.3
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn getcwd
-function copies an absolute pathname of the current working directory
+function copies the absolute pathname of the current working directory
into the memory referenced by
.Fa buf
and returns a pointer to
@@ -89,12 +89,6 @@ open the current directory
and use the
.Xr fchdir 2
function to return.
-.Pp
-These routines examine the the environment variable PWD,
-if it is an absolute path for the current directory,
-that path will be returned.
-Consequently, if the ``canonical'' name of the current directory is
-needed, unset the PWD environment variable before calling these routines.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a pointer to the pathname is returned.
Otherwise a
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