SAS/C Library Reference, Vol. 1

getcwd -- Determine Working Directory Pathname

SYNOPSIS

 #include <unistd.h>

 char *getcwd(char *buffer, int size);

DESCRIPTION

getcwd finds the pathname of the working OpenEdition directory. buffer is the buffer in which this information is stored. The size of buffer must be large enough to hold the pathname and a terminating null. size is the number of characters in the buffer area.

RETURN VALUE

getcwd returns a pointer to the buffer if successful and a NULL pointer if not successful.

IMPLEMENTATION

When getcwd is called in a program that was not compiled using the posix compiler option, the returned directory name includes an "hfs:"style prefix.

EXAMPLE

See the example for chdir.

RELATED FUNCTIONS

chdir