On 4/11/22, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> You know how every OS process has its own working directory? Just like
> that, except every module.

A per-thread working directory makes more sense to me. But it would be
a lot of work to implement support for this in the os and io modules,
for very little gain.

> "One WD per process" is baked so deep into file I/O on Posix
> systems (and I presume Windows) that its probably impossible to
> implement in current systems.

Windows has up to 27 working directories per process. There's the
overall working directory directory, plus one for each drive.
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