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

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2008, 11:30 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0809240430y682d6dd9wef801c33a6ee2f85@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48D95C96.4030906@cs.tamu.edu>

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

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> Alex Riesen wrote:
>> 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.

So there we are...

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/getcwd.html

It suggest a rather dubious workaround (calling pwd).

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

...but that's a system-inflicted workaround. We just have to do it or something like what it does.

General question: What does Sun's pwd do?