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1 | # By John Bazik |
2 | # | |
a6d71656 GS |
3 | # This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward |
4 | # compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it. | |
2f8d2bfa S |
5 | # This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future |
6 | # release of perl. | |
a6d71656 GS |
7 | # |
8 | # In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl | |
9 | # programming techniques. | |
10 | # | |
11 | # Suggested alternative: Cwd | |
2f8d2bfa S |
12 | |
13 | warn( "The 'fastcwd.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be" | |
14 | . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the" | |
15 | . " Cwd module instead." ); | |
16 | ||
99b89507 LW |
17 | # Usage: $cwd = &fastcwd; |
18 | # | |
19 | # This is a faster version of getcwd. It's also more dangerous because | |
20 | # you might chdir out of a directory that you can't chdir back into. | |
21 | ||
22 | sub fastcwd { | |
23 | local($odev, $oino, $cdev, $cino, $tdev, $tino); | |
24 | local(@path, $path); | |
25 | local(*DIR); | |
26 | ||
27 | ($cdev, $cino) = stat('.'); | |
28 | for (;;) { | |
29 | ($odev, $oino) = ($cdev, $cino); | |
30 | chdir('..'); | |
31 | ($cdev, $cino) = stat('.'); | |
32 | last if $odev == $cdev && $oino == $cino; | |
33 | opendir(DIR, '.'); | |
34 | for (;;) { | |
35 | $_ = readdir(DIR); | |
36 | next if $_ eq '.'; | |
37 | next if $_ eq '..'; | |
38 | ||
39 | last unless $_; | |
40 | ($tdev, $tino) = lstat($_); | |
41 | last unless $tdev != $odev || $tino != $oino; | |
42 | } | |
43 | closedir(DIR); | |
44 | unshift(@path, $_); | |
45 | } | |
46 | chdir($path = '/' . join('/', @path)); | |
47 | $path; | |
48 | } | |
49 | 1; |