From: Olaf Titz (s_titz@ira.uka.de)
Date: 11/30/92


From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: pwd acts funny in tcsh
Date: 30 Nov 1992 13:49:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov28.040730.15586@julian.uwo.ca> pratten@csd.uwo.ca (A Warren Pratten) writes:
>If you look at the file (cat /usr/bin/pwd) I bet you will find one line with
>only ...
>pwd
>on it. What is happening is you are recursively spawning pwd jobs (and
>filling up the process table).
>
>What I would suggest doing is adding the line ...
>#! /bin/sh
>before the 'pwd' line. It should work fine then.

What I suggest is delete /usr/bin/pwd, as 'pwd' is builtin in both
bash and tcsh.

olaf

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