strbuf: support long paths w/o read rights in strbuf_getcwd() on FreeBSD

diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index 8fec6579f70cae4bc6b330e4e0ca3e7cc595f366..01d25942014f277122dfe826f47a6be4d8d35474 100644 (file)
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -449,6 +449,17 @@ int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb)
                        strbuf_setlen(sb, strlen(sb->buf));
                        return 0;
                }
+
+               /*
+                * If getcwd(3) is implemented as a syscall that falls
+                * back to a regular lookup using readdir(3) etc. then
+                * we may be able to avoid EACCES by providing enough
+                * space to the syscall as it's not necessarily bound
+                * to the same restrictions as the fallback.
+                */
+               if (errno == EACCES && guessed_len < PATH_MAX)
+                       continue;
+
                if (errno != ERANGE)
                        break;
        }