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Re: [PATCH] linux: make getcwd(3) fail if it cannot obtain an absolute path [BZ #22679]
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 09:23:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux: make getcwd(3) fail if it cannot obtain an absolute path [BZ #22679]
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- References: <20180107030543.GA7248@altlinux.org>
On Jan 07 2018, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
> As the underlying getcwd syscall, starting with linux commit
> v2.6.36-rc1~96^2~2, may succeed without returning an absolute path,
> check for the path returned by syscall and fail with EACCES if the path
> is not absolute.
When we still used /proc we just fell through to the generic getcwd in
that case.
Andreas.
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