1 files changed, 85 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/xgetcwd.c b/lib/xgetcwd.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e775e74b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/xgetcwd.c
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/* xgetcwd.c -- return current directory with unlimited length
+   Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */
+
+/* Written by David MacKenzie, djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu. */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#if defined (CONFIG_BROKETS)
+/* We use <config.h> instead of "config.h" so that a compilation
+   using -I. -I$srcdir will use ./config.h rather than $srcdir/config.h
+   (which it would do because it found this file in $srcdir).  */
+#include <config.h>
+#else
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+#endif
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#ifndef errno
+extern int errno;
+#endif
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include "pathmax.h"
+
+#if !defined(_POSIX_VERSION) && !defined(HAVE_GETCWD)
+char *getwd ();
+#define getcwd(buf, max) getwd (buf)
+#else
+char *getcwd ();
+#endif
+
+/* Amount to increase buffer size by in each try. */
+#define PATH_INCR 32
+
+char *xmalloc ();
+char *xrealloc ();
+void free ();
+
+/* Return the current directory, newly allocated, arbitrarily long.
+   Return NULL and set errno on error. */
+
+char *
+xgetcwd ()
+{
+  char *cwd;
+  char *ret;
+  unsigned path_max;
+
+  errno = 0;
+  path_max = (unsigned) PATH_MAX;
+  path_max += 2;		/* The getcwd docs say to do this. */
+
+  cwd = xmalloc (path_max);
+
+  errno = 0;
+  while ((ret = getcwd (cwd, path_max)) == NULL && errno == ERANGE)
+    {
+      path_max += PATH_INCR;
+      cwd = xrealloc (cwd, path_max);
+      errno = 0;
+    }
+
+  if (ret == NULL)
+    {
+      int save_errno = errno;
+      free (cwd);
+      errno = save_errno;
+      return NULL;
+    }
+  return cwd;
+}