dmake 3.7 bug: loses child on 3b1

Dennis Vadura dvadura at watdragon.waterloo.edu
Thu Jun 20 23:37:32 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun13.010035.16040x at almira.uucp> haug at ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Brian R. Haug) writes:
>As best I can tell, this can not be easily fixed in any System V release (until
>V.4 when we get waitpid) unless you re-write the getcwd function, or the dmake
>function which calls getcwd.  Best of luck.
Many thanks to Brian for finding this bug.  It's really hard to for me to
get to a machine that exhibits the above behaviour.

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).

-dennis
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