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| [9] | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
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| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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| 4 | .\"
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| 5 | .\" @(#)getwd.3 6.2 (Berkeley) 5/12/86
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| 6 | .\"
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| 7 | .TH GETCWD 3 "May 12, 1986"
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| 8 | .UC 5
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| 9 | .SH NAME
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| 10 | getcwd \- get current working directory pathname
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| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 12 | .nf
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| 13 | .ft B
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| 14 | #include <unistd.h>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | char *getcwd(char *\fIpathname\fP, size_t \fIlen\fP)
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| 17 | .fi
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| 18 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 19 | .B Getcwd
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| 20 | copies the absolute pathname of the current working directory to
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| 21 | .I pathname
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| 22 | and returns a pointer to the result.
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| 23 | .I Pathname
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| 24 | is a character array of length
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| 25 | .IR len .
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| 26 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS
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| 27 | .B Getcwd
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| 28 | returns a null pointer and sets
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| 29 | .B errno
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| 30 | if an error occurs. The error will reflect the system call errors that
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| 31 | may occur if the path to the current directory is searched upwards to
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| 32 | the root directory. The error
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| 33 | .B ERANGE
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| 34 | is returned if the result does not fit within
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| 35 | .I len
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| 36 | bytes.
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