Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for relying on the CWD, such as avoiding time-of-check/time-of-use race conditions. The *at syscalls provide a better al

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for relying on the CWD, such as avoiding time-of-check/time-of-use race conditions. The *at syscalls provide a better alternative, but (at least as of a few years ago) they weren't widely implemented outside of Linux and Solaris.