On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 06:26:38 +0200 Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Roland Mainz <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > ----
> >
> > [Mainly for Glenn...]
> > Is it Ok if I add |getcwdat()| (which is missing in the POSIX |*at()|
> > APIs... but why ?) and |pathprogat()| to libast ?

> Just don't use the libast getcwd(). It relies on chdir() and other
> cruel stuff which is incompatible to threads ;-(

on linux is uses the getcwd syscall via syscall(2)

I'm guessing the only thread cruelty is using chdir() to get around pwd paths 
that
would trigger ENAMETOOLONG -- the code was written before fdopendir() and 
fchdir()
and *at() -- the chdir() part only kicks in on long pwd

its time to revisit that code with a fallback to the cruel code on systems
that don't have fdopendir()

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