[openbeos] Re: Ghost in the machine
- From: "Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel" <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:22:24 -0700
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From: "Daniel Reinhold" <danielr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Ghost in the machine
> The error code return value sure clears up a mystery. Of course -- it's
> not succeding on NULL -- it's succeding on 0. Whew, what a relief! The
> orginal author of the shell function was confused on this too, because
> he had the return value as a char *, which is where I came in.
Uhm, i'm not sure what shell are you using. The newos shell has (always
had) it right.
Anyhow, it is an understandable error since getpwd() returns
a pointer. However it is not yet in the libraries, so the syscall is used.
manuel,
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