Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net>wrote:
(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.
I agree with your proposal, which seems to better conform to expected behavior.
-- Darren Duncan
