/* xgetcwd.c -- return current directory with unlimited length Copyright (C) 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2005-2006, 2011 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 of the License, 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, see . */ /* Written by David MacKenzie . */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "pathmax.h" /* In this file, PATH_MAX is the size of an initial memory allocation. */ #ifndef PATH_MAX # define PATH_MAX 8192 #endif #if HAVE_GETCWD # ifdef VMS /* We want the directory in Unix syntax, not in VMS syntax. */ # define getcwd(Buf, Max) (getcwd) (Buf, Max, 0) # else char *getcwd (); # endif #else char *getwd (); # define getcwd(Buf, Max) getwd (Buf) #endif #include "xalloc.h" /* Return the current directory, newly allocated, arbitrarily long. Return NULL and set errno on error. */ char * xgetcwd () { char *ret; unsigned path_max; char buf[1024]; errno = 0; ret = getcwd (buf, sizeof (buf)); if (ret != NULL) return xstrdup (buf); if (errno != ERANGE) return NULL; path_max = (unsigned) PATH_MAX; path_max += 2; /* The getcwd docs say to do this. */ for (;;) { char *cwd = XNMALLOC (path_max, char); errno = 0; ret = getcwd (cwd, path_max); if (ret != NULL) return ret; if (errno != ERANGE) { int save_errno = errno; free (cwd); errno = save_errno; return NULL; } free (cwd); path_max += path_max / 16; path_max += 32; } }