2008/9/23 John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>:
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> Alex Riesen wrote:
>> Again: try a simple program which just does getpwd for this pathname
>
> From what I gather, getpwd() is in libiberty, which I didn't feel like
> messing with for this example.  I ran a small test program that called
> getcwd() in the repo directory, and it failed.  errno was set to EACCES,
> indicating insufficient permissions.

So there we are...

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> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/getcwd.html

It suggest a rather dubious workaround (calling pwd).

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> I may get around later to patching this, but for now we're moving ahead with
> a workaround.

...but that's a system-inflicted workaround. We just have to do it or something
like what it does.

General question: What does Sun's pwd do?
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