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Re: shell-init: error retrieving current directory
- From: LRN <lrn1986 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:29:16 +0400
- Subject: Re: shell-init: error retrieving current directory
- References: <521571A7 dot 6010503 at gmail dot com> <521575A1 dot 6020304 at gmail dot com> <20130822111058 dot GK2562 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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On 22.08.2013 15:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 22 06:21, LRN wrote:
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>> On 22.08.2013 06:04, nu774 wrote:
>>> Hi, I've experienced the same issue. From what I can see:
>>> Current bash.exe of cygwin64 seems to be improperly built with
>>> HAVE_GETCWD disabled, which result in using it's own getcwd
>>> implementation in the bash source package.
>> 1) It's not improperly disabled. Cygwin's getcwd does not behave the way
>> bash wants it to (when called with 0 buffer and 0 buffer length, it
>> fails, instead of allocating buffer). At least that is my understanding
>> after observing the source code.
>
> That's not the case. getcwd(NULL, 0) allocates a buffer via malloc,
> as on Linux.
Ah, yes. I've missed the fact that ulen is unsigned, so ulen = -1 is a
positive value.
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