From: John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:16:06 GMT
Subject: Re: clone fails: Could not get the current working directory
Message-ID: <48D95C96.4030906@cs.tamu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0809230801l2e6b1a71v1210317fe636aeba@mail.gmail.com>

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