getting the current working directory

[Kartik Subbarao]

In article <DENAP.91Jan11134939 at alta.sw.stratus.com> denap at alta.sw.stratus.com (Tom DeNapoli) writes:
>Along the same lines... 
>
>Has anyone got anything that will return the absolute pathname of
>an open file to a process?  
>
>Process A has file ./dir1/dir2/foo open and he wants the absolute
>path to the file as in /usr/local/stuff/dir1/dir2.  
>

A way to do this is to chdir() to the directory of the file (i.e.
dir1/dir2) and then do a getcwd() to find out where absolutely where you
are, like this:

/* # include <sys/param.h> */
    
    char fullpath[MAXPATHLEN];
    chdir("dir1/dir2"); 
    getcwd(fullpath, MAXPATHLEN);
    printf("Full pathname is %s\n", fullpath);


			-Kartik



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In article <DENAP.91Jan11134939 at alta.sw.stratus.com> denap at alta.sw.stratus.com (Tom DeNapoli) writes:
>Along the same lines... 
>
>Has anyone got anything that will return the absolute pathname of
>an open file to a process?  
>
>Process A has file ./dir1/dir2/foo open and he wants the absolute
>path to the file as in /usr/local/stuff/dir1/dir2.  
>

A way to do this is to chdir() to the directory of the file (i.e.
dir1/dir2) and then do a getcwd() to find out where absolutely where you
are, like this:

/* # include <sys/param.h> */
    
    char fullpath[MAXPATHLEN];
    chdir("dir1/dir2"); 
    getcwd(fullpath, MAXPATHLEN);
    printf("Full pathname is %s\n", fullpath);


			-Kartik



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