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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-07-13 17:37:44 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-07-13 17:37:44 +0000
commit9cd865e0ce0563d875b818d6d8e7032dc6d2817f (patch)
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Update.
2000-07-13  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c (__getcwd): Correctly handle
	getcwd (NULL, size) with size > 0.
	Fixes PR libc/1788, reported by John Buddery
	<jvb@cyberscience.com>.

2000-07-13  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>

	* posix/Makefile: Remove build rules for libposix.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c
index 6c68955fdb..417841664e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size)
       retval = INLINE_SYSCALL (getcwd, 2, CHECK_STRING (path), alloc_size);
       if (retval >= 0)
 	{
-	  if (buf == NULL)
+	  if (buf == NULL && size == 0)
 	    {
 	      buf = realloc (path, (size_t) retval);
 	      if (buf == NULL)
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size)
 
 # if __ASSUME_GETCWD_SYSCALL
       /* It should never happen that the `getcwd' syscall failed because
-	 the buffer is too small if we allocated the buffer outself.  */
-      assert (errno != ERANGE || buf != NULL);
+	 the buffer is too small if we allocated the buffer outselves
+	 large enough.  */
+      assert (errno != ERANGE || buf != NULL || size != 0);
 
       if (buf == NULL)
 	free (path);
@@ -153,8 +154,9 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size)
 	    }
 
 	  path[n] = '\0';
-	  if (buf == NULL)
+	  if (buf == NULL && size == 0)
 	    {
+	      /* Ensure that the buffer is only as large as necessary.  */
 	      buf = realloc (path, (size_t) n + 1);
 	      if (buf == NULL)
 		/* `relloc' failed but we still have the original string.  */