On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:43:13PM -0400, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 7:17 pm, Michael G Schwern via RT wrote: > >The bleadperl version tries both getcwd() and cwd(). Both fail. > >In fact, nothing works: > > I think shelling out usually works (on unixlike systems) as a last > resort.
One of the things Cwd tries is `pwd`. It doesn't work because it doesn't have any more information to go on than Perl does. 0 ~/tmp/foo/bar$ perl -wle 'print `pwd`' pwd: : Permission denied -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
