Re: Re: Current working directory and multi-threaded environments

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 rubys@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > >We are talking about reacting (getcwd) to an action by the server (chdir). > > That's not how I interpreted Andi's proposal. I guess I wasn't clear. My proposal was not to do any chdir()'s (nor getcwd()'s) anymore so that as you said, multiple threads can run in parallel correctly. What I want to do is emulate the chdir() behavior, or in a more general sense the current working directory behavior by saving the current working directory per-thread as a string and working with that everywhere. A call to our new virtual_chdir() function would change that string to reflect the new working directory and would not actually call the chdir() system call. virtual_getcwd() therefore, would return the value of the current working directory string and not the result of the system call getcwd(). Andi