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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Surprised by getcwd in v2
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 00:30:46 CDT
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> The behavior of v2 getcwd is a little surprising to a DOS programmer:
> getcwd returns NULL if passed a NULL buffer.  Comments in the code say
> that POSIX behavior is undefined in this case.  Borland and djgpp 1.x
> allocate memory for you if buffer is NULL.  libc.inf documents the new

Then V2 should to be fixed to be compatible.