kevin lyda said:
> that's just it, /kevin doesn't exist. in fact if i changed dir to any
> dir with a base of /u, it would just drop the /u.
> i rebooted the box and it started working again.
> the word "boggle" comes to mind.
the 2 words "kernel bug" or "fs corruption" also come to mind...
boggle is right.
It'd be interesting to see what a strace of /bin/pwd (strace works on
alpha, doesn't it?) outputs.
--j.
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