latest cygwin does not track pwd?
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Thu Nov 2 06:41:00 GMT 2000
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:18:23PM -0500, Robinow, David wrote:
> >> It's definitely 'getcwd(NULL, 0)' in Chuck's sources.
> > Also in 5.7.0 development sources.
> >> I think I'll just revert the behavior. It appears that a number of
> >> packages are expecting it.
> > Is there a reason these packages can't be fixed?
> > Is 'getcwd(NULL, -1)' broken in some version?
>
> Not that I know of, but Corinna has pointed out that some versions of linux
> suggest that getcwd(NULL, 0) is ok and, possibly, BSD allows this
> construction.
>
OpenBSD reference
http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/getcwd.3.htm
> So, I think we'll be constantly responding to this on the mailing list. I'd
> rather just "fix" cygwin.
>
I have yet to find a reference that allows a size of zero.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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