I've had problems with Cwd in the unix environment whenever your process is non-root and is working in a subdirectory of a directory that has the execute bit witout the read bit set.

My understanding is that Cwd essentially just does a CD .. until it gets to / and then CD's back to where it came from. But, if it can not read every single directory on the way back to / it gets confused.

There is a way to get Cwd make a system call to /bin/pwd, but if that's all the module is good for, then you might as well just do something like this: 

chomp ( my $dir = `/bin/pwd` );

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There probably is some way to make Cwd always do the right thing. If anybody knows what that is, I'd love to know

In reply to Re: Re: knowing the current directory by ehdonhon
in thread knowing the current directory by hotshot

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