From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:13:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow add_path() to add non-existent directories to the path
Message-ID: <487AFC89.8020009@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1215981083-10815-6-git-send-email-johannes.sixt@telecom.at>


Johannes Sixt schrieb:
> +static const char *get_pwd_cwd(void)
> +{
> +	static char cwd[PATH_MAX + 1];
> +	char *pwd;
> +	struct stat cwd_stat, pwd_stat;
> +	if (getcwd(cwd, PATH_MAX) == NULL)
> +		return NULL;
> +	pwd = getenv("PWD");
> +	if (pwd && strcmp(pwd, cwd)) {
> +		stat(cwd, &cwd_stat);
> +		if (!stat(pwd, &pwd_stat) &&
> +		    pwd_stat.st_dev == cwd_stat.st_dev &&
> +		    pwd_stat.st_ino == cwd_stat.st_ino) {
> +			strlcpy(cwd, pwd, PATH_MAX);

git-bash users on Windows, please test this patch. The problem is that
with our custom stat implementation st_dev and st_ino are not reliable. It
 works in my setup because $PWD is not set and this branch is never
entered, but with bash it makes a difference.

-- Hannes