2003-01-31 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
[binutils-gdb.git] / libiberty / getpwd.c
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1 /* getpwd.c - get the working directory */
3 /*
5 @deftypefn Supplemental char* getpwd (void)
7 Returns the current working directory. This implementation caches the
8 result on the assumption that the process will not call @code{chdir}
9 between calls to @code{getpwd}.
11 @end deftypefn
15 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
16 #include "config.h"
17 #endif
19 #include <sys/types.h>
21 #include <errno.h>
22 #ifndef errno
23 extern int errno;
24 #endif
26 #ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
27 #include <stdlib.h>
28 #endif
29 #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
30 #include <unistd.h>
31 #endif
32 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
33 #include <sys/param.h>
34 #endif
35 #if HAVE_SYS_STAT_H
36 #include <sys/stat.h>
37 #endif
39 /* Prototype these in case the system headers don't provide them. */
40 extern char *getpwd ();
41 extern char *getwd ();
43 #include "libiberty.h"
45 /* Virtually every UN*X system now in common use (except for pre-4.3-tahoe
46 BSD systems) now provides getcwd as called for by POSIX. Allow for
47 the few exceptions to the general rule here. */
49 #if !defined(HAVE_GETCWD) && defined(HAVE_GETWD)
50 #define getcwd(buf,len) getwd(buf)
51 #endif
53 #ifdef MAXPATHLEN
54 #define GUESSPATHLEN (MAXPATHLEN + 1)
55 #else
56 #define GUESSPATHLEN 100
57 #endif
59 #if !(defined (VMS) || (defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)))
61 /* Get the working directory. Use the PWD environment variable if it's
62 set correctly, since this is faster and gives more uniform answers
63 to the user. Yield the working directory if successful; otherwise,
64 yield 0 and set errno. */
66 char *
67 getpwd ()
69 static char *pwd;
70 static int failure_errno;
72 char *p = pwd;
73 size_t s;
74 struct stat dotstat, pwdstat;
76 if (!p && !(errno = failure_errno))
78 if (! ((p = getenv ("PWD")) != 0
79 && *p == '/'
80 && stat (p, &pwdstat) == 0
81 && stat (".", &dotstat) == 0
82 && dotstat.st_ino == pwdstat.st_ino
83 && dotstat.st_dev == pwdstat.st_dev))
85 /* The shortcut didn't work. Try the slow, ``sure'' way. */
86 for (s = GUESSPATHLEN; ! getcwd (p = xmalloc (s), s); s *= 2)
88 int e = errno;
89 free (p);
90 #ifdef ERANGE
91 if (e != ERANGE)
92 #endif
94 errno = failure_errno = e;
95 p = 0;
96 break;
100 /* Cache the result. This assumes that the program does
101 not invoke chdir between calls to getpwd. */
102 pwd = p;
104 return p;
107 #else /* VMS || _WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__ */
109 #ifndef MAXPATHLEN
110 #define MAXPATHLEN 255
111 #endif
113 char *
114 getpwd ()
116 static char *pwd = 0;
118 if (!pwd)
119 pwd = getcwd (xmalloc (MAXPATHLEN + 1), MAXPATHLEN + 1
120 #ifdef VMS
122 #endif
124 return pwd;
127 #endif /* VMS || _WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__ */