Re: popen() and virtual dir

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > What do you guys want to do with popen() and virtual_dir? This effects all > > of the exec() functions. > > We can either do a real chdir() before calling it and mutexing the whole > > section; or we can take a more complicated approach of creating a new > > process and doing the chdir() there. Last but not least, we could just > > disable these functions :) > > Forking and chdir() afterwards should do the trick. > > And then let us hope that all threaded servers handle forks > correctly (the child inherits all locks and possibly > allocated heap areas without knowing about them at all, if > the server has not set up proper fork-handling stacks). On windows forking and chdir() doesn't really exist as far as I know. There is CreateProcess but it would require some thinking. Andi