Re: Opendir on site root directory?

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:12:57 +0000, stuttle@gmail.com (Stuart) wrote: >Please keep the discussion on-list. > >2009/3/10 Clancy <clancy_1@cybec.com.au> > >> Hi, >> >> After I posted my message to the group today I realised that my program >> achieves its >> almost infinite flexibility by loading different include files in different >> circumstances, >> and from many different parts of the program. The program always specifies >> the location >> of the include file by the relative path from the root directory. If the >> uncertainty >> about the current working directory you worry about were really a problem >> this would never >> work, but I have been doing this for well over a year, and had never had >> any problems. >> > >Just because you haven't experienced a problem with the way you do things >yet it certainly doesn't mean the problem isn't there. You're not specifying >the location of an include file relative to the home directory, it's >relative to the current working directory which is not necessarily the >directory you expect it to be. The only circumstances in which my assumption could fail would be if I changed to a new provider with a different operating system. In the unlikely event of this happening all I would need to do would be to determine the actual directory, and chdir to the desired one. This would require at most half a dozen lines of code at the start of the program, so it would not be a significant hassle.