Re: some more JOBS

[James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com>]

> If it already uses get_current_dir_name, we can probably exclude
> the
> offending code for the Hurd, or eridicate it completely.  Can you
> do this or
> provide more context?
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 

I can provide more context, but I don't have anyway to submit a bug
with a patch.  Installwatch does a number of system operations, such
as chmod.  These functions send a pointer/array of size MAXPATHLEN to
a 
function called canonicalize, which on a glibc based machine just 
reassigns the pointer to the return value of get_current_dir_name().
  However, there is still the old unix way of
getcwd(pointer,MAXPATHLEN) with more work.  So we can either use
#ifdef __GLIBC__ 
  char *canonic;
#else 
   char canonic[MAXPATHLEN];
#endif 
in each of these functions or is there a better way?


=====
James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   1B

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