From: Olaf Titz (s_titz@ira.uka.de)
Date: 12/07/92


From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: Error -> getwd: cannot access parent directories
Date: 7 Dec 1992 14:10:51 GMT

In article <BysEM4.4qK@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> vince@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Vince Stemen) writes:
>
>I get this error when I run pwd while in a mounted file system.
>Does anybody know what could cause this. I does not do it if I mount
>a file system to an existing directory. Only if I mount to a new directory
>that I have just made. I just started having this problem yesterday. Any
>directories that have existed since before then have no problem.

First make sure that you have rx access for all the .. entries
involved.

Olaf

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