From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Subject: Re: Ada/UNIX(tm) and the NAME function
Date: 1 Jan 89 00:01:50 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4209@enea.se> (raw)
Dik T. Winter (dik@cwi.nl) writes:
>And note also that getwd (in C terms, getcwd is Fortran I believe) may fail.
>It will do so if the parent directory of one of the directories has
>execute permission only, no read permission. In that case a file may
>be opened, but it is not possible to get an absolute path name.
I guess this is what happens when you type "pwd" and get something like
"...can't open". This is the occassion when you as VMS-raised person get
very confused and wonder where you are. Such things just doesn't happen
on that system...
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1989-01-01 0:01 Erland Sommarskog [this message]
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1988-12-28 16:38 Ada/UNIX(tm) and the NAME function David Emery
1988-12-30 17:35 ` Barry Margolin
1988-12-30 22:08 ` Dik T. Winter
1989-01-03 20:03 ` John Stafford
1988-12-20 19:40 John Stafford
1988-12-21 19:43 ` Robert Firth
1989-01-03 15:19 ` Stephe Leake
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