1.\" Copyright 2015 Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> 2.\" Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved Portions Copyright (c) 2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved 3.\" 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 4.\" http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/. 5.\" 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. 6.\" This notice shall appear on any product containing this material. 7.\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 8.\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. 9.\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE. If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] 10.Dd Mar 30, 2015 11.Dt GETWD 3C 12.Os 13.Sh NAME 14.Nm getwd 15.Nd get current working directory pathname 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.In unistd.h 18.Ft "char *" 19.Fn getwd "char *path_name" 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Fn getwd 23function determines an absolute pathname of the current 24working directory of the calling process, and copies that pathname into the 25array pointed to by the 26.Fa path_name 27argument. 28.Lp 29If the length of the pathname of the current working directory is greater than 30.Pq Dv PATH_MAX + 1 31including the null byte, 32.Fn getwd 33fails and returns a null pointer. 34.Sh RETURN VALUES 35Upon successful completion, a pointer to the string containing the absolute 36pathname of the current working directory is returned. 37Otherwise, 38.Fn getwd 39returns a null pointer and the contents of the array pointed to by 40.Fa path_name 41are undefined. 42.Sh ERRORS 43No errors are defined. 44.Sh USAGE 45The 46.Fn getwd 47function is supplied for backwards compatibility. 48The 49.Xr getcwd 3C 50should be used instead. 51.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY 52.Sy Obsolete Standard . 53.Sh SEE ALSO 54.Xr getcwd 3C , 55.Xr standards 5 56.Sh STANDARDS 57The 58.Fn getwd 59function is available in the following compilation environments. 60See 61.Xr standards 5 . 62.Lp 63.Bl -bullet -compact 64.It 65.St -xpg4.2 66.It 67.St -susv2 68.It 69.St -susv3 70.El 71.Lp 72It was marked obsolete in 73.St -susv3 74and removed from 75.St -p1003.1-2008 . 76