Re: [PATCH] to get gnome-terminal to save/restore cwd.

[kevin lyda <kevin suberic net>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:12:01PM -0400, Christopher T. Lansdown wrote:
> > 	b) for providing a linux-only patch.  i meant to mention this, and i
> > 	   hope someone can rectify it.  essentially i get the child's
> > 	   pid and use that to get the child's cwd - via /proc/<pid>/cwd.
> is getcwd() really that non-portable?  From the getcwd manpage is claims
> that it conforms to POSIX.1, so I'd assume that it's not linux-specific. 
> Was there a reason not to use that?

yes.  hint: getcwd() doesn't take a pid argument.

kevin

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