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: <39EC30A8.99BB455D@ision.net> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:57:44 +0200 From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Organization: ISION Internet AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Treatment of x:path again References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Lassi, Lassi A. Tuura wrote: > FWIW, it seems this isn't even possible under Win32. Based on MSDN docs > it sounds like Win32 maintains only one current directory and really > knows nothing about disk drives in that context. Indeed, a simple test on NT4/SP6 using only Win32 functions SetCurrentDirectory() and GetCurrentDirectory() confirms that Windows itself does not care about drives in this context. > It is only cmd.exe that maintains an illusion of a current > directory for all the drives on Windows NT and 2000. Actually I have seen code in Borland's runtime that maintains the illusion of a per-drive current directory. This of course is in runtime functions like chdir() and getcwd() and similar ones. I assume Microsoft's runtimes do the same. Cygwin's, as we have heard, doesn't (understandably (sp?)). Neither does the internal Tcl runtime BTW. so long, benny -- ISION Internet AG Benjamin Riefenstahl mailto:benjamin.riefenstahl@ision.net Ruhrstrasse 61 D-22761 Hamburg http://www.ision.net -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com