dmake 3.7 bug: loses child on 3b1

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.chi.il.us
Fri Jun 21 14:12:09 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun20.133732.1559 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> dvadura at watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) writes:

>Does anyone have a getcwd for Sys V that doesn't rely on forking and invoking
>pwd.  I'd like to include the fix in the next patch (which I have been
>promissing for a while and keep delaying due to this problem).

The machines that have this problem generally do not have symlinks, so
there should never be any surprises from getcwd().  Can't you just
pick up your starting directory before doing any work and track your
own chdir()s relative to that?

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us



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