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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: bind vs pwd
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 14:35:45 -0500

Phil writes:
| pwd may give either answer.  there is no way of remembering how you
| got somewhere because the mount table is stored by a hash. So '..'
| searches through the table and gives you the first answer.

I was caught by this when I tried to tar up my home directory and my
bin and tmp both sent tar rampaging through the filesystem.  This is
even trickier than symbolic links.