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From: jmason@iona.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: 4.1.2: pwd(1) vs. automount(8) -- AUTOMOUNT_FIXNAMES?
Date: 21 Sep 1993 15:39:44 +0100
Organization: Iona Technologies
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The SunOS 4.1.2 pwd(1) manual states:

>The pathnames of files mounted with the Automounter can also
>change  if  the file is not used for a certain time interval
>(the default is five minutes).  To  prevent  this,  set  the
>environment  variable  AUTOMOUNT_FIXNAMES.  See automount(8)
>for more information.

Is this true? It doesn't seem to work here, no matter what I set
it to. Seeing as getcwd(3) just popens pwd(1), this would be a
worthwhile trick...

"The Art of Automounting" doesn't seem to mention it, either.

What's the story?

--
Justin Mason (Iona Technologies' unix caretaker, fixer-upper and disk-filler)

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