True… I don’t have access to any official Solaris versions prior to Solaris 10. AFAICT Oracle has stopped giving free licenses to Solaris away.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:29 PM Paul B. Henson <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Garrett D'Amore > > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:43 PM > > Because the notion of cwd for a process may differ based on how a process > > got there, and what context it is running in, I would strongly prefer to > see > > that we take very careful care of this, and if we’re going to make it > universally > > available, then let’s do it properly via system call that takes care of > any > > normalization that might be necessary to account for chroot, zones, etc. > > Stashing this away in procfs feels far less “good” to me. > > I agree, it should be done "right"; I'm just arguing that it should be > done :). As I mentioned, given the implementer, I think it probably was > done "right" in Solaris, although I'm not sure what level of observability > can be taken from that proprietary operating system to determine how. > Presumably at the very least a third-party independent user could report > what Solaris getcwd returns in various scenarios such as in a zone or > chroot without procfs available. > ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T1bf578bf66b8b8b0-M49170932845284a9db83953f Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
