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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*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Dd Mar 30, 2015 11*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Dt GETWD 3C 12*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Os 13*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh NAME 14*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Nm getwd 15*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Nd get current working directory pathname 16*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh SYNOPSIS 17*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.In unistd.h 18*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Ft "char *" 19*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fn getwd "char *path_name" 20*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh DESCRIPTION 21*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'AmoreThe 22*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fn getwd 23*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amorefunction determines an absolute pathname of the current 24c10c16deSRichard Loweworking directory of the calling process, and copies that pathname into the 25*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amorearray pointed to by the 26*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fa path_name 27*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amoreargument. 28*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Lp 29c10c16deSRichard LoweIf the length of the pathname of the current working directory is greater than 30*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Pq Dv PATH_MAX + 1 31*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amoreincluding the null byte, 32*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fn getwd 33*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amorefails and returns a null pointer. 34*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh RETURN VALUES 35c10c16deSRichard LoweUpon successful completion, a pointer to the string containing the absolute 36c10c16deSRichard Lowepathname of the current working directory is returned. Otherwise, 37*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fn getwd 38*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amorereturns a null pointer and the contents of the array pointed to by 39*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fa path_name 40*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amoreare undefined. 41*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh ERRORS 42c10c16deSRichard LoweNo errors are defined. 43*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh USAGE 44*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'AmoreThe 45*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fn getwd 46*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amorefunction is supplied for backwards compatibility. The 47*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Xr getcwd 3C 48*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amoreshould be used instead. 49*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY 50*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sy Obsolete Standard . 51*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh SEE ALSO 52*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Xr getcwd 3C , 53*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Xr standards 5 54*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Sh STANDARDS 55*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'AmoreThe 56*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Fn getwd 57*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amorefunction is available in the following compilation environments. See 58*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Xr standards 5 . 59*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Lp 60*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Bl -bullet -compact 61*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.It 62*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.St -xpg4.2 63*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.It 64*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.St -susv2 65*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.It 66*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.St -susv3 67*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.El 68*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.Lp 69*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'AmoreIt was marked obsolete in 70*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.St -susv3 71*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amoreand removed from 72*aaec9ca2SGarrett D'Amore.St -p1003.1-2008 . 73