Comment 1 for bug 479248

The same here!
This bug affects me sporadically on an ecryptfs directory (/home/xxxxx) in a screen session.

Those are my findings:
(Note that strace changes the behaviour of pwd!)

xxxxx@yyyy-e53:~/studium_s8/da$ strace git diff 2>> /home/xxxxx/strage_problem_git.txt
xxxxx@yyyy-e53:~/studium_s8/da$ strace pwd 2>> /home/xxxxx/strage_problem_pwd.txt
/studium_s8/da
xxxxx@yyyy-e53:~/studium_s8/da$ pwd
/home/xxxxx/studium_s8/da
xxxxx@yyyy-e53:~/studium_s8/da$ cd
xxxxx@yyyy-e53:~$ cd /var/log
xxxxx@yyyy-e53:/var/log$ pwd
/var/log
xxxxx@yyyy-e53:/var/log$ strace pwd 2>> /home/xxxxx/strage_problem_pwd2.txt
/var/log