/* xgetwd.c -- return current directory with unlimited length Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ /* Derived from xgetcwd.c in e.g. the GNU sh-utils. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include #endif #include "system.h" #include #include #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif #include #ifndef HAVE_GETWD char *getwd (); #define GETWD(buf, max) getwd (buf) #else char *getcwd (); #define GETWD(buf, max) getcwd (buf, max) #endif /* Amount by which to increase buffer size when allocating more space. */ #define PATH_INCR 32 char *xmalloc (); char *xrealloc (); /* Return the current directory, newly allocated, arbitrarily long. Return NULL and set errno on error. */ char * xgetwd () { char *cwd; char *ret; unsigned path_max; errno = 0; path_max = (unsigned) PATH_MAX; path_max += 2; /* The getcwd docs say to do this. */ cwd = xmalloc (path_max); errno = 0; while ((ret = GETWD (cwd, path_max)) == NULL && errno == ERANGE) { path_max += PATH_INCR; cwd = xrealloc (cwd, path_max); errno = 0; } if (ret == NULL) { int save_errno = errno; free (cwd); errno = save_errno; return NULL; } return cwd; }