Re: [Gnumed-devel] Postgres 8.4.4-1 (Enterprise db) problems -- system hosed?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:19:39PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Is it relevant that, on Mac, I can find no "cwd" command whereas the Mac 
> has/uses
> 
>       pwd
> 
> (print working directory)

Same on Linux, it's just the Python command that's called cwd().

(Perhaps because on Python all you do is "get" the cwd. Just
getting the value doesn't mean it will necessarily be
printed while pwd will always "print" the value - to stdout
anyways, which likely is a terminal.)

> see http://perldoc.perl.org/Cwd.html where it says:

>       Actually, on Mac OS, the getcwd() , fastgetcwd() and
> fastcwd() functions are all aliases for the cwd()function,
> which, on Mac OS, calls `pwd`. Likewise, the abs_path()
> function is an alias forfast_abs_path() .

That may, indeed, have to do with it. Nothing we can do
anything about, however, except avoid which we now already
do.

Karsten
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