In message "[ruby-talk:01790] [ruby-1.5.3] path_check_1"
    on 00/03/09, ts <decoux / moulon.inra.fr> writes:

| I don't understand these lines in file.c

(snip)

This is a genuine bug.  Here's the patch.

--- file.c	2000/03/07 08:37:30	1.15
+++ file.c	2000/03/10 09:00:45
@@ -1959,5 +1959,5 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_GETCWD
-	if (getcwd(path, sizeof(path)) == 0) return 0;
+	if (getcwd(buf, MAXPATHLEN) == 0) return 0;
 #else
-	if (getwd(path) == 0) return 0;
+	if (getwd(buf) == 0) return 0;
 #endif