-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jim,
> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is not about Microsoft per se, but simply about > the lack of fchdir (or POSIX support in general) in WOE. I agree let's not enumerate Microsoft's flaws as we would never finish. :) > I suppose it's a long shot, but... > is there a way, in WOE/MSVC, to emulate fchdir's behavior? I think not. My research on http://msdn.microsoft.com site came up with no hint of a method to translate an open file / directory handle into a path name. > I.e., given a file descriptor that is the result of opening a > directory, can you obtain an absolute path name of that directory? Worse, if "C:\work" is a directory attempts to use the Visual C 6.0 "open" function with "_O_RDONLY" argument to open "." or "C:\work" will both return -1 value i.e. error. Sample program follows. Conrad #include <stdio.h> #include <io.h> #include <fcntl.h> static int opendir( char *name ) { int fd; fd = open( name, _O_RDONLY ); printf( "open %s = %d\n", name, fd ); close( fd ); return fd; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int fd; printf("Hello World!\n"); fd = opendir( "test.txt" ); fd = opendir( "." ); fd = opendir( "C:\\work" ); return 0; } -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBQi8GwLNM28ubzTo9EQJxHwCg4H3VBV4ftjY6Jau9DuleH/0mvykAoLee EKxRsykxCHYpu0r1VRvKe6aq =RI6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list Bug-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
