Re: init_buffer PWD fix

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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: MIYASHITA Hisashi(=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNVwyPBsoQiAbJEI+MBsoQjpISU1J?=)
>>  <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:30:35 +0900
>> 
>> I think that we MUST NOT use "PWD" environment variable to obtain
>> the current directory because it's never standardized.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "it's never standardized".  PWD is part
> of the POSIX standard.

Yes, you are correct.  "PWD" is reserved and required to be set by shell on
POSIX compliant systems.  Of course, I supposed the case on Windows in
that mail.

>  It's true that one can have a problem when
> mixing POSIX and non-POSIX shells, since the latter don't update PWD
> and this can cause PWD to become incorrect; but this is becoming less
> of an issue with time, and anyway Emacs does have a workaround for it.

It's one of problems when using Cygwin on Windows ;-).

  With regards,

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