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Re: clone fails: Could not get the current working directory

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JFJohn Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>
Date
Sep 23, 2008, 21:16 UTC
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Alex Riesen wrote:
> I actually expected "ls -R" giving error about unable to read the 
> directory (permissions).
This worked.
> 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.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/getcwd.html

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

- John
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