Brian De Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it crazy to ask for getcwd's behavior to be changed? It's
> technically allowed by POSIX to fail like this (which I suspect is to
> allow for naive implementations that have to walk the filesystem), but
> there doesn't seem to be an alternative for a process that wants to
> validate its cwd.
POSIX does not allow to do this:
The getcwd() function shall fail if:
...
[EACCES]
Search permission was denied for the current directory, or read or search
permission was denied for a directory above the current directory in the file
hierarchy.
You may like to send a bug report against that on "austingroupbugs".
Your wish would require that "shall" is replaced by "may".
Jörg
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