Re: BUG #5267: initdb fails on AIX: could not identify current directory

michael@x054:[/data/prj/postgresql-8.4.2/src]grep cwd */*.c
Well, unless you redefine it...
port/exec.c:#define getcwd(cwd,len)  GetCurrentDirectory(len, cwd)
port/exec.c:    char            cwd[MAXPGPATH],
port/exec.c:    if (!getcwd(cwd, MAXPGPATH))
port/exec.c:                    join_path_components(retpath, cwd, argv0);
port/exec.c:    join_path_components(retpath, cwd, argv0);
port/exec.c:                            join_path_components(retpath, cwd,
test_path);
port/exec.c:     * getcwd() to figure out where the heck we're at.
port/exec.c:     * getcwd() to give us an accurate, symlink-free path.
port/exec.c:    if (!getcwd(orig_wd, MAXPGPATH))
port/exec.c:    if (!getcwd(path, MAXPGPATH))


Now I have no idea what is being called. I hope you do.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Michael Felt <mamfelt@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Well, the problem is what to print?  The failure we are trying to report
> >> is exactly that we *can't get* the name of the directory.
>
> > Well, there is an argument that a system call is using to get somewhere?
>
> getcwd() has no input parameters.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>