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Re: Error Message



On 22 Mar 1999, Guy Maor wrote:

>Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> writes:
>
>> Starting dictionary server: shell-init: could not get current directory: [0302]:16180
>
>bash says that when getcwd() fails as it tries to set the PWD env
>variable.  The first number is the working directory and the second
>number is strerror(errno).  Obviously some stack corruption has taken
>place.

Actually, the number is the inode on the filesystem that is causing the
problem.  0302 is hda2 and the other number is the inode on that device.

Trust me.  We're going over this stuff right now in my operating systems
course.

Brian



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