Pb getwd on afs linux

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <19990119093903.A7220 at light-brigade.mit.edu>, Gerald Britton 
writes:
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| On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 09:34:39AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > Because that works by inode number.  The problem being that AFS uses a set 
| > of four 32-bit values, which have to be hashed into a single 32-bit value; 
| > the result is *not* guaranteed to be unique, so ugly things can happen with
| > programs that rely on unique inode numbers.  Such as pwd, and such as 
| > Solaris's ld.so which goes bonkers if two shared libraries on AFS hash to 
| > the same inode number....
| 
| If this is the case, how does Transarc AFS deal with it?  You never run into
| this problem using their AFS client.
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Actually, I do --- with libc5 stuff bound into a libc6 program (i.e. 
Netscape + Acrobat plug-in) getcwd() fails.

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