/* xgetcwd.c -- return current directory with unlimited length Copyright (C) 1992, 1996 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 3, 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Written by David MacKenzie . */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #include #include #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif #include #include "pathmax.h" #if HAVE_GETCWD char *getcwd (); #else char *getwd (); # define getcwd(Buf, Max) getwd (Buf) #endif /* Amount to increase buffer size by in each try. */ #define PATH_INCR 32 char *xmalloc (); char *xrealloc (); void free (); /* Return the current directory, newly allocated, arbitrarily long. Return NULL and set errno on error. */ char * xgetcwd () { 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 = getcwd (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; }