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Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:

> Also, are permissions problems ever an issue on Windows platforms?  In
> Unix and GNU/Linux, getcwd can fail because a parent directory is not
> readable, and that is an argument for preferring $PWD to getcwd.  Is
> such a getcwd failure possible in Windows?

Note that on Windows, we can successfully get the current directory
if we can enter it, to the contrary on Unix, we fail to getcwd() if the
current directory is not readable.

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