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From: philw@pla... philw@pla...
Subject: bind vs pwd
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:21:19 -0500

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.