Re: latest cygwin does not track pwd?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

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...

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

getcwd (NULL, 0);

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

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

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

cgf

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