Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39B5597B.779582AF@home.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:37:15 -0400 From: "David A. Cobb" Organization: @home user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Current Directory? [Branch from Re: DLL naming conventions] References: <200009011148.OAA23769@urkki.tellabs.fi> <39AFB333.69CE5F95@ece.gatech.edu> <20000902140958.F7695@demon.co.uk> <39B14893.A86AF3F9@ece.gatech.edu> <20000902231925.Q7695@demon.co.uk> <20000902221915.B13854@cygnus.com> <39B4209A.6B5BBEC1@home.com> <20000904225307.B1081@cygnus.com> <39B54A8D.6D4A876D@veritas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob McGowan wrote: > I'd like to expand on this, hopefully to add clarity. The above is > absolutely correct, for an interactive foreground shell session. > Another way to say it is that the "current directory" is what you would > get if you were to open the file named "." (dot, period...) in an > application (which includes the shells). > > Additionally, since any particular application may be run in the > background, and may also change directory, it is possible to have > several "current directories", depending on which of the running > applications you are referring to. > The "Current Directory" then, must be a property/attribute of the "Current Process." Is that correct? With respect to the operator, it is relative to the current top window? In other words, when I launch a program the cd is established by the [shell] process in which I execute the launch command. Subsequently, the running process may change it internally. If I focus somewhere else, "my" current directory changes, but that's irrelevant to the program I launched before. Have I got it? > > -- > Bob McGowan > Staff Software Quality Engineer > VERITAS Software > rmcgowan@veritas.com > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "Don't buy or use crappy software" "By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French, tr.] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com