1 /* xgetcwd.c -- return current directory with unlimited length
2 Copyright (C) 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2005-2006, 2011, 2020 Free
3 Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
9
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
14
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17
18 /* Written by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. */
19
20 #include <config.h>
21
22 /* Specification. */
23 #include "xgetcwd.h"
24
25 #include <stdlib.h>
26 #include <stdio.h>
27 #include <errno.h>
28 #include <sys/types.h>
29 #include <unistd.h>
30
31 #include "pathmax.h"
32
33 /* In this file, PATH_MAX is the size of an initial memory allocation. */
34 #ifndef PATH_MAX
35 # define PATH_MAX 8192
36 #endif
37
38 #if HAVE_GETCWD
39 # ifdef VMS
40 /* We want the directory in Unix syntax, not in VMS syntax. */
41 # define getcwd(Buf, Max) (getcwd) (Buf, Max, 0)
42 # else
43 char *getcwd ();
44 # endif
45 #else
46 char *getwd ();
47 # define getcwd(Buf, Max) getwd (Buf)
48 #endif
49
50 #include "xalloc.h"
51
52 /* Return the current directory, newly allocated, arbitrarily long.
53 Return NULL and set errno on error. */
54
55 char *
56 xgetcwd (void)
57 {
58 char *ret;
59 unsigned path_max;
60 char buf[1024];
61
62 errno = 0;
63 ret = getcwd (buf, sizeof (buf));
64 if (ret != NULL)
65 return xstrdup (buf);
66 if (errno != ERANGE)
67 return NULL;
68
69 path_max = (unsigned) PATH_MAX;
70 path_max += 2; /* The getcwd docs say to do this. */
71
72 for (;;)
73 {
74 char *cwd = XNMALLOC (path_max, char);
75
76 errno = 0;
77 ret = getcwd (cwd, path_max);
78 if (ret != NULL)
79 return ret;
80 if (errno != ERANGE)
81 {
82 int save_errno = errno;
83 free (cwd);
84 errno = save_errno;
85 return NULL;
86 }
87
88 free (cwd);
89
90 path_max += path_max / 16;
91 path_max += 32;
92 }
93 }