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RE: latest cygwin does not track pwd?
- To: "'cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: latest cygwin does not track pwd?
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:34:43 -0500
> 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.
>
> So, I think we'll be constantly responding to this on the
> mailing list. I'd
> rather just "fix" cygwin.
OK, it's your call.
For what it's worth Solaris and IRIX both require EINVAL. I can't
think of why failure to return EINVAL would break something though.
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