Current working dir?

turkeyman · Post by **turkeyman** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:29 am

Can anyone tell me how to get the current working directory? or rather, since there doesnt seem to be one (all paths seem to be absolute), the directory the elf lives in?

weltall · Post by **weltall** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:15 pm

you can find it inside argv[0]

turkeyman · Post by **turkeyman** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:21 pm

sure?
that was the first thing i tried, but it didnt work..
does that rely on the launcher? or the homebrew libs?

Post by **TyRaNiD** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:32 pm

Depends, argv[0] is setup by the program which loaded the module, if the launcher doesn't do it correct it will not work. The Sony shell does it, psplink does it, not idea about any other launcher.

The libc which comes with the toolchain _should_ extract the current directory information for you and allow you to call open/opendir etc. with relative paths, but best print out argv[0] to see if you have actually got the path to the executable in there.

PeterM · Post by **PeterM** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:35 pm

You can get the current dir using the getcwd function. I think it lives in unistd.h, but I'm not sure.

Fanjita · Post by **Fanjita** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:47 am

eLoader also passes the correct argv[0] by default. You can turn that behaviour off so that it passes NULL, but it's unlikely you've done that.

Note that the stdlib functions all rely on the module being passed the correct argv[] in the first place, if that didn't happen then all standard functions (such as cwd()) will have problems.

turkeyman · Post by **turkeyman** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:27 am

fair call, if you say the sony shell does set it up, then i must have just screwed something up myself..
thanks guys! :P