[PATCH v2 1/3] tools/nolibc: unistd: Add getcwd()

From: Daniel Palmer

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 09:28:04 EST


Add getcwd() for getting the current working directory.

The behaviour matches what musl is doing except for one
important difference: If the passed buf is NULL musl (and glibc)
uses a big buffer on the stack and that is then strdup()'d and
returned.

According to the man page for getcwd() this is a glibc extension
and I don't think we need it in nolibc.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/include/nolibc/unistd.h | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/unistd.h b/tools/include/nolibc/unistd.h
index 79599ceef45d..057fc3a94179 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/unistd.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/unistd.h
@@ -73,6 +73,46 @@ int ftruncate(int fd, off_t length)
return __sysret(_sys_ftruncate(fd, length));
}

+/*
+ * char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size);
+ */
+
+static __attribute__((unused))
+int _sys_getcwd(char *buf, size_t size)
+{
+ return __nolibc_syscall2(__NR_getcwd, buf, size);
+}
+
+static __attribute__((unused))
+char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ /* Unlike other libc's we don't handle passing NULL for buf,
+ * we just call the syscall, if you passed NULL you'll get
+ * an error.
+ */
+ ret = __sysret(_sys_getcwd(buf, size));
+
+ /* On error return NULL, __sysret() above will have set errno */
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Handle no path being written or the kernel putting
+ * "(unreachable)" into the buffer instead of a path.
+ * This matches what musl is doing.
+ */
+ if (ret == 0 || buf[0] != '/') {
+ SET_ERRNO(ENOENT);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ /* ret must be the number of bytes written at this point,
+ * so return the pointer to buf.
+ */
+ return buf;
+}
+
static __attribute__((unused))
int msleep(unsigned int msecs)
{
--
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