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?
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