2007-02-03 Jim Meyering Make pwd and readlink work also when run with an unreadable parent dir on systems with openat support. * lib/getcwd.c (__getcwd) [HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD]: Use the system provided getcwd function, even when we have openat support. Reported by Dmitry V. Levin in . Index: lib/getcwd.c =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/gnulib/gnulib/lib/getcwd.c,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -p -r1.17 getcwd.c --- lib/getcwd.c 26 Jan 2007 22:16:55 -0000 1.17 +++ lib/getcwd.c 3 Feb 2007 00:07:43 -0000 @@ -140,13 +140,18 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size) size_t allocated = size; size_t used; -#if HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD && !defined AT_FDCWD +#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. */ + suspicious. + + Use the system getcwd even if we have openat support, since the + system getcwd works even when a parent is unreadable, while the + openat-based approach does not. */ + # undef getcwd dir = getcwd (buf, size); if (dir || (errno != ERANGE && !is_ENAMETOOLONG (errno) && errno != ENOENT))