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Re[2]: latest cygwin does not track pwd?


Hello Christopher,

I just took a look at the perl source, actually the AP620_source and it
looks like this may be fixed.

From cygwin.c...

   if(getcwd (tmp,PATH_MAX+1)!=NULL)


Where is the authoritative source for perl?

Wednesday, November 01, 2000, 12:52:46 AM, you wrote:

CF> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:31:08PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>cwd =
>>
>>just as Richard Kim says.  The code for Cwd::cwd on cygwin is
>>implemented by <perl-src>/cygwin.c -- but I don't know why it's
>>failing.  Patches gratefully accepted (and archived -- I'm not planning
>>to release a new perl build myself until 5.6.1 comes out; and probably
>>not even then if a third party takes the initiative...

CF> The problem is that it looks like perl is calling getcwd like this:

CF> getcwd (NULL, 0);

CF> and cygwin is returning a NULL, as is mandated by both the Single Unix
CF> Specification and the linux man page.  1.1.4 allowed zero length length
CF> arguments but that was a bug that I fixed in 1.1.5.

CF> I had no idea that people were relying on the bug.

CF> I'm not sure what to do about this.  I am loathe to accomodate a bug
CF> like this but I don't want to force a new perl release or endure to the
CF> next two years of "I cygwined my perl 1.1.[5-9] and it am broke" messages
CF> either.

CF> cgf

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