# The 'natural and safe form' for UNIX (pwd may be setuid root)
sub _backtick_pwd {
my $cwd = `$pwd_cmd`;
+ # Belt-and-suspenders in case someone said "undef $/".
+ local $/ = "\n";
# `pwd` may fail e.g. if the disk is full
chomp($cwd) if defined $cwd;
$cwd;