From 4f3abb0f091b14e09d257ee4eb40632471177d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:29:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] copy_absolute() keeps the relative path on _Py_wgetcwd()
 failure

.. instead of raising a fatal error. Even if the current directory was deleted,
use relative paths may still work (eg. run Python with "../python").
---
 Modules/getpath.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/getpath.c b/Modules/getpath.c
index ee784dd7f1c..9e5934d739e 100644
--- a/Modules/getpath.c
+++ b/Modules/getpath.c
@@ -236,8 +236,11 @@ copy_absolute(wchar_t *path, wchar_t *p)
     if (p[0] == SEP)
         wcscpy(path, p);
     else {
-        if (!_Py_wgetcwd(path, MAXPATHLEN))
-            Py_FatalError("unable to get the current directory");
+        if (!_Py_wgetcwd(path, MAXPATHLEN)) {
+            /* unable to get the current directory */
+            wcscpy(path, p);
+            return;
+        }
         if (p[0] == '.' && p[1] == SEP)
             p += 2;
         joinpath(path, p);