getcwd: on Solaris, work better if ancestors are inaccessible

[gnulib.git] / lib / getcwd.c

diff --git a/lib/getcwd.c b/lib/getcwd.c
index 1ba705c..7d47072 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/getcwd.c
+++ b/lib/getcwd.c
@@ -136,13 +136,11 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size)
   size_t allocated = size;
   size_t used;
 
-#if HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD
-  /* The system getcwd works, except it sometimes fails when it
-     shouldn't, setting errno to ERANGE, ENAMETOOLONG, or ENOENT.  If
-     AT_FDCWD is not defined, the algorithm below is O(N**2) and this
-     is much slower than the system getcwd (at least on GNU/Linux).
-     So trust the system getcwd's results unless they look
-     suspicious.
+#if HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETCWD
+  /* If AT_FDCWD is not defined, the algorithm below is O(N**2) and
+     this is much slower than the system getcwd (at least on
+     GNU/Linux).  So trust the system getcwd's results unless they
+     look suspicious.
 
      Use the system getcwd even if we have openat support, since the
      system getcwd works even when a parent is unreadable, while the
@@ -150,8 +148,27 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size)
 
 # undef getcwd
   dir = getcwd (buf, size);
-  if (dir || (errno != ERANGE && errno != ENAMETOOLONG && errno != ENOENT))
+  if (dir)
     return dir;
+
+  /* Solaris getcwd (NULL, 0) fails with errno == EINVAL, but it has
+     internal magic that lets it work even if an ancestor directory is
+     inaccessible, which is better in many cases.  So in this case try
+     again with a buffer that's almost always big enough.  */
+  if (errno == EINVAL && buf == NULL && size == 0)
+    {
+      char big_buffer[BIG_FILE_NAME_LENGTH + 1];
+      dir = getcwd (big_buffer, sizeof big_buffer);
+      if (dir)
+        return strdup (dir);
+    }
+
+# if HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD
+  /* The system getcwd works, except it sometimes fails when it
+     shouldn't, setting errno to ERANGE, ENAMETOOLONG, or ENOENT.    */
+  if (errno != ERANGE && errno != ENAMETOOLONG && errno != ENOENT)
+    return NULL;
+# endif
 #endif
 
   if (size == 0)