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)
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>. */
37 # include <sys/file.h>
46 # define O_DIRECTORY 0
52 char *xgetcwd
PARAMS ((void));
54 /* Record the location of the current working directory in CWD so that
55 the program may change to other directories and later use restore_cwd
56 to return to the recorded location. This function may allocate
57 space using malloc (via xgetcwd) or leave a file descriptor open;
58 use free_cwd to perform the necessary free or close. Upon failure,
59 no memory is allocated, any locally opened file descriptors are
60 closed; return non-zero -- in that case, free_cwd need not be
61 called, but doing so is ok. Otherwise, return zero. */
64 save_cwd (struct saved_cwd
*cwd
)
66 static int have_working_fchdir
= 1;
71 if (have_working_fchdir
)
74 cwd
->desc
= open (".", O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
);
77 error (0, errno
, "cannot open current directory");
82 /* On SunOS 4, fchdir returns EINVAL if accounting is enabled,
83 so we have to fall back to chdir. */
84 if (fchdir (cwd
->desc
))
90 have_working_fchdir
= 0;
94 error (0, errno
, "current directory");
100 # endif /* __sun__ || sun */
102 # define fchdir(x) (abort (), 0)
103 have_working_fchdir
= 0;
107 if (!have_working_fchdir
)
109 cwd
->name
= xgetcwd ();
110 if (cwd
->name
== NULL
)
112 error (0, errno
, "cannot get current directory");
119 /* Change to recorded location, CWD, in directory hierarchy.
120 If "saved working directory", NULL))
124 restore_cwd (const struct saved_cwd
*cwd
, const char *dest
, const char *from
)
129 if (fchdir (cwd
->desc
))
131 error (0, errno
, "cannot return to %s%s%s",
132 (dest
? dest
: "saved working directory"),
133 (from
? " from " : ""),
138 else if (chdir (cwd
->name
) < 0)
140 error (0, errno
, "%s", cwd
->name
);
147 free_cwd (struct saved_cwd
*cwd
)