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Date:      Fri, 07 Sep 2001 10:08:24 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>, Current List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: __getcwd & errno 20 (Not a directory) vfs_cache.c 
Message-ID:  <64092.999850104@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:50:17 PDT." <20010907065017.A22A6380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> 

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In message <20010907065017.A22A6380C@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> You are not supposed to call __getcwd() directly.
>
>Yes, but it would be an excellent junior-kernel-hacker task to make it work
>in all cases, ie: manually searching parent directories.  netbsd does this,
>as does linux, and if we're going to emulate the linux getcwd(2) syscall
>then we need it.  The NetBSD code is probably a good place to start for
>pointers, but it wont be directly usable due to name-cache differences.

I fully agree, but that was not the subject :-)

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