syscall: reduce redundant getwd tracking in Plan 9
In Plan 9, each M is implemented as a separate OS process with
its own working directory. To keep the wd consistent across
goroutines (or rescheduling of the same goroutine), CL 6350
introduced a Fixwd procedure which checks using getwd and calls
chdir if necessary before any syscall operating on a pathname.
This wd checking will not be necessary if the pathname is absolute
(starts with '/' or '#'). Getwd is a fairly expensive operation
in Plan 9 (implemented by opening "." and calling Fd2path on the
file descriptor). Eliminating the redundant getwd calls can
significantly reduce overhead for common operations like
"dist test --list" which perform many syscalls on absolute pathnames.
Updates #9428.
Change-Id: I13fd9380779de27b0ac2f2b488229778d6839255
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/97675 Reviewed-by: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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