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

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2008, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0809230801l2e6b1a71v1210317fe636aeba@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48D90125.3090703@cs.tamu.edu>

2008/9/23 John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>:

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> Alex Riesen wrote:
>>
>> Saw them. .bashrc (/etc/bashrc too) is not used for non-interactive
>> sessions,
>> like yours (of course, you can source them from
>> .profile/.bash_login/.bash_profile).
>>
>> Have you tried the commands exactly? (Even more interesting would be to
>> try
>> a simple getpwd program which prints errno)
>>
>
> I have.  I'm convinced that the problem is not missing commands; if it were,
> I'd be getting a "missing command," or "file not found," or similar error.

I actually expected "ls -R" giving error about unable to read the directory (permissions).

>  Like I've said, I am able to get this to work when the repo is in my home
> directory.  It only fails when the repo is on another path in the system for
> which I do not have read privileges all the way down - only at the end.

Again: try a simple program which just does getpwd for this pathname