kern___getcwd() returns ENOTDIR

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Jun 27 11:12:19 PDT 2004


On Sun, Jun 27, 2004, Kentucky Mandeloid Mo. wrote:
> I'm writng a smal kernel module that catches file access syscalls.
> At every syscall I need a full name of file is being passed to a syscall.
> I'm getting it with a path passed to syscall and if path is not starting 
> with / I get current working directory of process using kern___getcwd().
> In every syscall all works just fine except rmdir & unlink.
> Sometimes in unlink and everytime in rmdir it returns "not a directory" error.
> I know already that kern___getcwd() works through vnode cache and this method 
> is not a reliable way to get file names.
> So is there any other way get cwd of a proccess? 

linux_getcwd() works in more cases than kern___getcwd(), but it
has other problems.


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