From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10735 invoked from network); 20 Mar 1999 08:01:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Mar 1999 08:01:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 11057 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 1999 08:01:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5866 Received: (qmail 11050 invoked from network); 20 Mar 1999 08:01:40 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990320000049.ZM1466@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:00:48 -0800 In-Reply-To: <9903151232.AA16317@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson "Re: PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-12: getcwd" (Mar 15, 1:32pm) References: <9903151232.AA16317@ibmth.df.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: "Zsh hackers list" Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-12: getcwd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 15, 1:32pm, Peter Stephenson wrote: } Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-12: getcwd } } "Andrej Borsenkow" wrote: } > What is wrong with native getcwd? (Apart, that it may use native } > malloc() to allocate buffer)? If there are any known problems, is it } > possible to write a configure check for them? } } The only problem I can see is that getcwd() is passed a fixed buffer size } [...] Does anyone know more? There's always the searchable archive ... http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?WORKERNUMBER=3480 http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?WORKERNUMBER=3481 These articles ring a bell to the effect that zgetdir() is working around some kind of problem with crossing of NFS mount points when walking up the directory tree, affecting some but perhaps not all implementations of get[c]wd(). -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com