Re: [HACKERS] getcwd failing suddenly

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Thus spake Tom Lane
> > > shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories
> >
> > A quick glimpse scan shows no such error message in the Postgres
> > sources. This must be coming out of your shell. Protection change
> > on one of the ancestors of your home directory, maybe?
>
> I forgot to mention that this happens on 3 different machines as I
> upgrade to the latest PostgreSQL and each machine has a different
> version of the OS. I can't recall changing anything to do with
> directory permissions but I certainly didn't change all 3.

Dumb question but I got bit by it before. Is there a makefile.custom
nearby? When I was cleaning up the docbook tags I put one in and it
had a couple of directories that didn't exist on my machine. They
probably existed on Tom Lockhart's machine, tho. :) I never noticed
it till the next time I built PostgreSQL.

Vince.
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