'\" te .\" Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved Portions Copyright (c) 2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved .\" Sun Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation. Original documentation from The Open Group can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/. .\" The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. In the following statement, the phrase "this text" refers to portions of the system documentation. Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the Sun OS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html. This notice shall appear on any product containing this material. .TH getwd 3C "24 Jul 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "Standard C Library Functions" .SH NAME getwd \- get current working directory pathname .SH SYNOPSIS .LP .nf #include \fBchar *\fR\fBgetwd\fR(\fBchar *\fR\fIpath_name\fR); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .sp .LP The \fBgetwd()\fR function determines an absolute pathname of the current working directory of the calling process, and copies that pathname into the array pointed to by the \fIpath_name\fR argument. .sp .LP If the length of the pathname of the current working directory is greater than (\fIPATH_MAX\fR + 1) including the null byte, \fBgetwd()\fR fails and returns a null pointer. .SH RETURN VALUES .sp .LP Upon successful completion, a pointer to the string containing the absolute pathname of the current working directory is returned. Otherwise, \fBgetwd()\fR returns a null pointer and the contents of the array pointed to by \fIpath_name\fR are undefined. .SH ERRORS .sp .LP No errors are defined. .SH USAGE .sp .LP For portability to implementations conforming to versions of the X/Open Portability Guide prior to SUS, \fBgetcwd\fR(3C) is preferred over this function. .SH ATTRIBUTES .sp .LP See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .sp .TS tab() box; lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) . \fBATTRIBUTE TYPE\fR\fBATTRIBUTE VALUE\fR _ Interface StabilityStandard .TE .SH SEE ALSO .sp .LP \fBgetcwd\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)