On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net>wrote:
> Having read all of this thread to date, I'll state a solution which should > be elegant and which I'm not sure has been stated yet. I think that's basically what we were suggesting above, except: > (If Perl really must have the ability to change the non-virtual "current > working directory", such as because its going to spawn another non-Perl > process, then this should use some separate mechanism to what all of Perl's > own IO uses, and any such change would have no effect on any Perl $*CWD.) I would propose that whenever Perl spawns a non-Perl process, that process automatically executes a chdir() to the spawning thread's value of $*CWD. But this should be done without changing the parent process's external/OS working directory. In UNIX that's easy - fork(), then chdir(), then exec() - but in Windows it may be trickier. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
