/* Provide a replacement for the POSIX getcwd function. Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* written by Jim Meyering */ #include #include #include #include #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif #include #include "pathmax.h" #include "same.h" /* Undefine getcwd here so any prototype is not redefined to be a prototype for rpl_getcwd. */ #undef getcwd /* Guess high, because that makes the test below more conservative. But this is a kludge, because we should really use pathconf (".", _PC_NAME_MAX). But it's probably not worth the cost. */ #define KLUDGE_POSIX_NAME_MAX 255 #define MAX_SAFE_LEN (PATH_MAX - 1 - KLUDGE_POSIX_NAME_MAX - 1) /* This is a wrapper for getcwd. Some implementations (at least GNU libc 2.3.1 + linux-2.4.20) return non-NULL for a working directory name longer than PATH_MAX, yet the returned string is a strict prefix of the desired directory name. Upon such a failure, free the offending string, set errno to ENAMETOOLONG, and return NULL. I've heard that this is a Linux kernel bug, and that it has been fixed between 2.4.21-pre3 and 2.4.21-pre4. */ char * rpl_getcwd (char *buf, size_t size) { char *cwd = getcwd (buf, size); if (cwd == NULL) return NULL; if (strlen (cwd) <= MAX_SAFE_LEN || same_name (cwd, ".")) return cwd; free (cwd); errno = ENAMETOOLONG; return NULL; }