[Vm-dev] unix start scripts, pwd and error

Ian Piumarta piumarta at speakeasy.net
Thu Mar 25 05:16:43 UTC 2010


On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Lampert <markuslampert at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Markus> I remember that instead of just calling 'pwd' to
> Markus> determine the 'bindir' we changed it to 'pwd -P', which is  
> portable to
> Markus> all UNIX variants (at the time)

> pwd -P is a relatively modern invention.

IIRC pwd on Solaris does not recognise this option.

Cheers,
Ian



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