getcwd: on Solaris, work better if ancestors are inaccessible

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+2010-07-14  Paul R. Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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+       getcwd: on Solaris, work better if ancestors are inaccessible
+       * lib/getcwd.c (__getcwd): If getcwd returns EINVAL for zero
+       buffer and size, try again with a large buffer.  This works better
+       on Solaris, since its getcwd succeeds even if the path to the root
+       is inaccessible, and this is helpful in common cases such as .zfs
+       hidden directories.  Problem reported by J Chapman Flack in
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-06/msg00000.html
+       Use system getcwd if it's declared, not merely if it's partly
+       working; use the partly-working test only to avoid needless effort
+       if the system getcwd fails.
+       * m4/getcwd-path-max.m4 (gl_FUNC_GETCWD_PATH_MAX): Omit
+       comment that was already obsolete and is now even more obsolete.
+       * modules/getcwd (Depends-on): Depend on strdup, since __getcwd
+       now might call strdup.
+
 2010-07-13  Paul R. Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        pthread: Add enough so that coreutils/src/sort.c compiles.