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[Christopher Allen Wing]

Erik:

> > Yes.  Is there any distribution that ships with that combination?  Or
> > should we just say that we luckily don't need getcwd.so any longer
> > and remove it?
> 
> One good thing about having it is that some non-free application, that only
> come as binaries, still uses libc5 and then it chokes without getcwd.so.  One
> example is acroread (of cource there are alternatives to that software)


To solve this problem here, I just hacked libc5 to include support for the
getcwd() system call, which adds less overhead than a system-wide
LD_PRELOAD.


-Chris
wingc at engin.umich.edu