From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 123501 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2016 20:23:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 123488 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2016 20:23:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=0280 X-HELO: mail-qt0-f178.google.com Received: from mail-qt0-f178.google.com (HELO mail-qt0-f178.google.com) (209.85.216.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:23:24 +0000 Received: by mail-qt0-f178.google.com with SMTP id c47so391288425qtc.2 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:23:24 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=IUCt3Rl0VT/KttJtayAnJKogxvg5Mi/cXpILXdj9oxY=; b=Z/FlMhbfCNNLDC/axodRAteI/ENGgoSffMz2Fjnq9srKqw1CGPj5/B6KBZ9wILlCHY 9K7f/AfHZZN6oPGe7oIJBnKMVVMSFeEMEzgpilbfO4TUOLCt7QR9AgY2kJlfkeAhBIwf H/1fqDg9/8ElatPQwrgwlYuxTWNwXK/QzyeRLSs2TvhSrt//x4S8ERX9P4rKTtJLkd0U yMjcwpWG3rnPtFy21gRg1Z+p4YaRJ/rGQ9b4QlqpvpUroyFlZQU2ljnsFupTLdoAA+6Y Nbr4qbnt+bT0uWGQ1krmPdbvcR0lX36y21rcl3YyujxB1alLql0Vg3p305bGJivlLJBs 8NUQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC01KA1Hf4CiKtlYr4YZA17krFswE4yZBtzjJejyJ8ypoIyAWW6MdeOz3oAXjOaDzchbd60scFsG7eBkVog== X-Received: by 10.200.47.204 with SMTP id m12mr71033795qta.79.1481142202407; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:23:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.25.171 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:23:22 -0800 (PST) From: Dipak Gaigole Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Problem with chdir and GetCurrentDirectory on Windows 2016 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 Hello, I am facing a very strange problem with chdir and GetCurrentDirectory. After calling chdir (), the call to GetCurrentDirectory () returns wrong value. I tested this on Windows 7 and Windows 2016. It is working fine on Windows 7 whereas wrong values are returned on Windows 2016. I guess we should see the same behavior on Windows 10 (client version of Windows 2016) as well. ######################################################################### Administrator@windows2k16vika /cygdrive/c/src $ cygcheck.exe -c cygwin Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status cygwin 1.7.33-1 OK Administrator@windows2k16vika /cygdrive/c/src $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW6 windows2k16vika 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:45 i686 Cygwin Administrator@windows2k16vika /cygdrive/c/src $ cat test_cwd.c #include #include #include #define BUF_SIZE 512 int main() { int ret; char *dir; char dirname [BUF_SIZE]; dir = "/cygdrive/c/Program Files"; ret = chdir (dir); fprintf (stderr, "chdir (%s) reuturned <%d>\n", dir, ret); ret = GetCurrentDirectory(BUF_SIZE, dirname); if (ret) fprintf (stderr, "GetCurrentDirectory returned <%s>, ret = <%d>\n", dirname, ret); dir = getcwd (dirname, BUF_SIZE); fprintf (stderr, "getcwd returned <%s>, ret = <%s>\n", dirname, dir); return 0; } Administrator@windows2k16vika /cygdrive/c/src $ gcc -g -Wall -lKernel32 test_cwd.c -o test_cwd Administrator@windows2k16vika /cygdrive/c/src $ ./test_cwd.exe chdir (/cygdrive/c/Program Files) reuturned <0> GetCurrentDirectory returned , ret = <6> getcwd returned , ret = Administrator@windows2k16vika /cygdrive/c/src $ ######################################################################### Has anyone noticed such behavior on Windows 10 or 2016? Any suggestions, pointers? Thanks, Dipak -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple