On Thursday 27 March 2003 18:46, you wrote: > Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: > > For all you Mac OSX users out there... > > > > The Tcl8.4.x uses the OS-call realpath() to > > figure-out the real physical path of the > > file on the filesystem, stripped of all "./", > > "../", constructs, symlinks and alike. > > > > BANG: this function uses chdir/fchdir internally > > which changes the process current working directory > > for each invocation. It is called for just about > > *every* path you pass to the Tcl library! Wow! > > The funny thing: the man page does not care to > > mention this *important* side-effect! > > This is truly sick, Zoran. Truly sick. An extremely obnoxious > side-effect, even if it were documented. Does Apple have a process for > filing bug reports that would give us some hope one of their Unix > hackers will see it?
I really do not know. I think we might go to Darwin site and try to file a bug report. Cheers, Zoran -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/
