9fans archive / 1994 / 11 / 9 / prev next 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.