Add strbuf_getcwd(), which puts the current working directory intto
a strbuf.  Because it doesn't use a fixed-size buffer it supports
arbitrarily long paths, as long as the platform's getcwd() does as
well.  At least on Linux and FreeBSD it handles paths longer than
PATH_MAX just fine.

Suggested-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.bl...@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l....@web.de>
---
 Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt |  4 ++++
 strbuf.c                               | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 strbuf.h                               |  1 +
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt 
b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index f9c06a7..49e477d 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ same behaviour as well.
        use it unless you need the correct position in the file
        descriptor.
 
+`strbuf_getcwd`::
+
+       Set the buffer to the path of the current working directory.
+
 `stripspace`::
 
        Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if
diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index 33018d8..2bf4dfa 100644
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -406,6 +406,27 @@ int strbuf_readlink(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, 
size_t hint)
        return -1;
 }
 
+int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb)
+{
+       size_t oldalloc = sb->alloc;
+       size_t guessed_len = 128;
+
+       for (;; guessed_len *= 2) {
+               strbuf_grow(sb, guessed_len);
+               if (getcwd(sb->buf, sb->alloc)) {
+                       strbuf_setlen(sb, strlen(sb->buf));
+                       return 0;
+               }
+               if (errno != ERANGE)
+                       break;
+       }
+       if (oldalloc == 0)
+               strbuf_release(sb);
+       else
+               strbuf_reset(sb);
+       return -1;
+}
+
 int strbuf_getwholeline(struct strbuf *sb, FILE *fp, int term)
 {
        int ch;
diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index a7c0192..bc38bb9 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ extern size_t strbuf_fread(struct strbuf *, size_t, FILE *);
 extern ssize_t strbuf_read(struct strbuf *, int fd, size_t hint);
 extern int strbuf_read_file(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint);
 extern int strbuf_readlink(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint);
+extern int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb);
 
 extern int strbuf_getwholeline(struct strbuf *, FILE *, int);
 extern int strbuf_getline(struct strbuf *, FILE *, int);
-- 
2.0.2


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