Re: bash-shipped getcwd() replacement does not work on interix.

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 12:30 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> > diff -ru builtins/common.c builtins/common.c
> > --- builtins/common.c       Wed Dec 19 10:30:07 2007
> > +++ builtins/common.c       Wed Dec 19 10:34:58 2007
> > @@ -479,11 +479,8 @@
> >  
> >    if (the_current_working_directory == 0)
> >      {
> > -#if defined (GETCWD_BROKEN)
> > -      the_current_working_directory = getcwd (0, PATH_MAX);
> > -#else
> > -      the_current_working_directory = getcwd (0, 0);
> > -#endif
> > +      char *t = xmalloc(PATH_MAX);
> > +      the_current_working_directory = getcwd (t, PATH_MAX);
> 
> The length of the cwd may be bigger than PATH_MAX.

Eventually - but there are three (ok, two) other locations in bash-3.2
where buffer[PATH_MAX] is passed to getcwd():

1) jobs.c:
     current_working_directory()
2) parse.y:
     decode_prompt_string()

3) lib/readline/examples/fileman.c:
     com_pwd()
     ok, this just is an example, and uses 1024 instead of PATH_MAX.

Instead of using PATH_MAX, why not have some xgetcwd() instead, doing
malloc (when getcwd does not allocate itself), and increase the buffer
when getcwd() returns ERANGE ?

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level