-/* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Obsolete function to get current working directory.
+ Copyright (C) 1991-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
- published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
- License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library 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
- Library General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
- write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include <errno.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
-/* Put the absolute pathname of the current working direction in BUF.
- If successful, return BUF. If not, put an error message in
- BUF and return NULL. BUF should be at least PATH_MAX bytes long. */
+
char *
-getwd (buf)
- char *buf;
+getwd (char *buf)
{
#ifndef PATH_MAX
#define PATH_MAX 1024
- char fetchbuf[PATH_MAX];
-#else
-#define fetchbuf buf
#endif
+ char tmpbuf[PATH_MAX];
if (buf == NULL)
{
return NULL;
}
- if (getcwd (fetchbuf, PATH_MAX) == NULL)
+ if (__getcwd (tmpbuf, PATH_MAX) == NULL)
{
-#if defined HAVE_STRERROR_R || defined _LIBC
- __strerror_r (errno, buf, PATH_MAX);
-#else
- strncpy (buf, strerror (errno), PATH_MAX);
-#endif
+ /* We use 1024 here since it should really be enough and because
+ this is a safe value. */
+ __strerror_r (errno, buf, 1024);
return NULL;
}
- if (fetchbuf != buf)
- strcpy (buf, fetchbuf);
-
- return buf;
+ /* This is completely unsafe. Nobody can say how big the user
+ provided buffer is. Perhaps the application and the libc
+ disagree about the value of PATH_MAX. */
+ return strcpy (buf, tmpbuf);
}
+
+link_warning (getwd,
+ "the `getwd' function is dangerous and should not be used.")