From 78c96188073ac429d54f2efb5f13355d425e65ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maarten Billemont <lhunath@lyndir.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:07:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Test chdir.

---
 platform-independent/cli-c/cli/mpw-cli-util.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/platform-independent/cli-c/cli/mpw-cli-util.c b/platform-independent/cli-c/cli/mpw-cli-util.c
index 8fc71ad8..b338dce3 100644
--- a/platform-independent/cli-c/cli/mpw-cli-util.c
+++ b/platform-independent/cli-c/cli/mpw-cli-util.c
@@ -220,17 +220,18 @@ bool mpw_mkdirs(const char *filePath) {
     if (!filePath)
         return false;
 
+    // Save the cwd and for absolute paths, start at the root.
+    char *cwd = getcwd( NULL, 0 );
+    if (*filePath == '/')
+        if (!chdir( "/" ))
+            return false;
+
     // The path to mkdir is the filePath without the last path component.
     char *pathEnd = strrchr( filePath, '/' );
     char *path = pathEnd? mpw_strndup( filePath, (size_t)(pathEnd - filePath) ): NULL;
     if (!path)
         return false;
 
-    // Save the cwd and for absolute paths, start at the root.
-    char *cwd = getcwd( NULL, 0 );
-    if (*filePath == '/')
-        chdir( "/" );
-
     // Walk the path.
     bool success = true;
     for (char *dirName = strtok( path, "/" ); success && dirName; dirName = strtok( NULL, "/" )) {