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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn on a V.3 machine
Summary: Trash the getwd code in util.c
Message-ID: <232@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 17:56:18 GMT
References: <4@isg300.UUCP>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas
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In article <4@isg300.UUCP> jsh0@isg300 (J. Steven Harrison) writes:
>It seems that in the file util.c getwd only works for root on the root 
>partition (drive 1) without getting the error "getwd:  read error in ..".
>If run as root from the second drive as root you get the same error and
>if run as any user on the system (that doesn't have uid=0) the same error
>also results.
>
>Has anyone already solved this problem??  We are running on AT&T 3B2 600's,
>700's and a 4000.
>--
>Steven Harrison

the trouble seems to be with incompatibilities between the libndir
code which rn was written to use, and the libndir code on USG Unix.

i have doug gywn's posix compatible routines here and rn doesn't
work with them.  the fix was to not use 8-( the libraries and have
getwd() pipe the results of pwd into a buffer.

this has worked since i am now using rn to read news here, as
opposed to vnews which i was using last week.

- john.
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