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1 /* save-cwd.c -- Save and restore current working directory.
2 Copyright (C) 1995, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* Written by Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>. */
20 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 # include "config.h"
22 #endif
24 #include <stdio.h>
26 #ifdef STDC_HEADERS
27 # include <stdlib.h>
28 #endif
30 #if HAVE_UNISTD_H
31 # include <unistd.h>
32 #endif
34 #if HAVE_FCNTL_H
35 # include <fcntl.h>
36 #else
37 # include <sys/file.h>
38 #endif
40 #include <errno.h>
41 #ifndef errno
42 extern int errno;
43 #endif
45 #include "save-cwd.h"
46 #include "error.h"
48 char *xgetcwd PARAMS ((void));
50 /* Record the location of the current working directory in CWD so that
51 the program may change to other directories and later use restore_cwd
52 to return to the recorded location. This function may allocate
53 space using malloc (via xgetcwd) or leave a file descriptor open;
54 use free_cwd to perform the necessary free or close. Upon failure,
55 no memory is allocated, any locally opened file descriptors are
56 closed; return non-zero -- in that case, free_cwd need not be
57 called, but doing so is ok. Otherwise, return zero. */
59 int
60 save_cwd (struct saved_cwd *cwd)
62 static int have_working_fchdir = 1;
64 cwd->desc = -1;
65 cwd->name = NULL;
67 if (have_working_fchdir)
69 #if HAVE_FCHDIR
70 cwd->desc = open (".", O_RDONLY);
71 if (cwd->desc < 0)
73 error (0, errno, "cannot open current directory");
74 return 1;
77 # if __sun__ || sun
78 /* On SunOS 4, fchdir returns EINVAL if accounting is enabled,
79 so we have to fall back to chdir. */
80 if (fchdir (cwd->desc))
82 if (errno == EINVAL)
84 close (cwd->desc);
85 cwd->desc = -1;
86 have_working_fchdir = 0;
88 else
90 error (0, errno, "current directory");
91 close (cwd->desc);
92 cwd->desc = -1;
93 return 1;
96 # endif /* __sun__ || sun */
97 #else
98 # define fchdir(x) (abort (), 0)
99 have_working_fchdir = 0;
100 #endif
103 if (!have_working_fchdir)
105 cwd->name = xgetcwd ();
106 if (cwd->name == NULL)
108 error (0, errno, "cannot get current directory");
109 return 1;
112 return 0;
115 /* Change to recorded location, CWD, in directory hierarchy.
116 If "saved working directory", NULL))
120 restore_cwd (const struct saved_cwd *cwd, const char *dest, const char *from)
122 int fail = 0;
123 if (cwd->desc >= 0)
125 if (fchdir (cwd->desc))
127 error (0, errno, "cannot return to %s%s%s",
128 (dest ? dest : "saved working directory"),
129 (from ? " from " : ""),
130 (from ? from : ""));
131 fail = 1;
134 else if (chdir (cwd->name) < 0)
136 error (0, errno, "%s", cwd->name);
137 fail = 1;
139 return fail;
142 void
143 free_cwd (struct saved_cwd *cwd)
145 if (cwd->desc >= 0)
146 close (cwd->desc);
147 if (cwd->name)
148 free (cwd->name);