Re: fatal: Could not get current working directory: Permission denied | affected 2.10,2.11,2.12, but not 1.9.5 |

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 15.03.2017 um 22:30 schrieb René Scharfe:
> Am 15.03.2017 um 10:44 schrieb Zenobiusz Kunegunda:
>> $ git bisect bad
>> 7333ed1788b4f2b162a35003044d77a716732a1f is the first bad commit
>> commit 7333ed1788b4f2b162a35003044d77a716732a1f
>> Author: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
>> Date:   Mon Jul 28 20:26:40 2014 +0200
>>
>>     setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
> 
> That's what I half-suspected, and I think by now I got an idea.  Here's
> a test program:

And here's a patch for letting strbuf_getcwd() use the same getcwd(3)
extension that pwd(1) uses.  It avoids the need to guess the path's
length and thus reduces the chance of stumbling over strange error
codes.  I wonder if it helps in your case.

René

---
 strbuf.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index ace58e7367..4c02801edd 100644
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -442,6 +442,14 @@ int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb)
 {
 	size_t oldalloc = sb->alloc;
 	size_t guessed_len = 128;
+	char *cwd;
+
+	cwd = getcwd(NULL, 0);
+	if (cwd) {
+		size_t len = strlen(cwd);
+		strbuf_attach(sb, cwd, len, len + 1);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	for (;; guessed_len *= 2) {
 		strbuf_grow(sb, guessed_len);
-- 
2.12.0