Patch-ID# 100576-03
Keywords: pwd, cwd, getwd, return, absolute, pathname, point patch
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1: automount, getwd does not return absolute pathname
Date: 06/Apr/92

SunOS release: 4.1.1 4.1.2

Unbundled Product: 

Unbundled Release: 

Topic: automount, getwd pathnames

BugId's fixed with this patch: 1044045

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun4 sun4c

Patches which may conflict with this patch: 

Obsoleted by: 

 NOTE: This patch will not be integrated into subsequent releases of SunOS.

Files included with this patch: getwd.automount.so

Problem Description: 
This patch will return absolute path and not the automounted temporary mount
path when using getwd() in their program.

Install Instructions: 

The new module is called getwd.automount.so and this module can be use on all
sun4/4.1x systems.

This is what you need to test it with the customer application.

1.  copy getwd.automount.so  into /usr/lib/   (or somewhere where it is safe)

2.  in csh
    setenv LD_PRELOAD "/usr/lib/getwd.automount.so"  
    [change the path if getwd.automount.so is not in /usr/lib]

3.  Run the customers application.  Now if the path has /tmp_mnt in front
    of it then it will be stripped off with this patch.

4.  If the customer is using -M option of automount then he/she will need
    to set AUTOMOUNT_FIX env variable to the mount-path.

I have put getwd.automount.so and a small test program called get.c which can
be used to make sure all this works.