>> I have a question regarding the vnode_to_path() function [...] > The problem is that it works if and only if [...].
That's the immediate pragmatic problem. More serious, I think, is that it exhibits a much more fundamental confusion: it is confusing objects with names for objects. > The correct way to handle this is to call getcwd there instead, but > there's so far no agreement to accept the possible extra overhead on > every exec call. Also, there *are* race conditions and it's not at > all clear what the consequences might be. The current directory may not have any name, and if it does, it may not be determinable by the user doing the exec. > $ORIGIN is a poorly conceived interface, unfortunately. Not as if _that_'s anything new. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
