From 29e5f5d81f19f40c47f2e63866d8474bc8602550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:27:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] When getcwd() doesn't exist or raises an exception, don't
 fail but fall back to using os.curdir instead; if it is fine, don't use
 os.curdir at all.

---
 Lib/tempfile.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index bd0ba606b33..6e87af1db7f 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ def gettempdir():
     global tempdir
     if tempdir is not None:
         return tempdir
-    attempdirs = ['/usr/tmp', '/tmp', os.getcwd(), os.curdir]
+    try:
+        pwd = os.getcwd()
+    except (AttributeError, os.error):
+        pwd = os.curdir
+    attempdirs = ['/usr/tmp', '/tmp', pwd]
     if os.name == 'nt':
         attempdirs.insert(0, 'C:\\TEMP')
         attempdirs.insert(0, '\\TEMP')