> There is so much regret in this feature.  xterm is supposed to be as
> secure as possible so why does it need to inspect all the processes
> in the system (that is what this feature gives xterm, as soon as you
> pledge "ps").

I don't see any other way to get xterm's cwd. If there's a way to do so
without having to inpsect all processes, I'm happy to make the change
to the patch to do just that.

> How about if xterm wasn't capable of doing that?  Is it much of a loss?
> Who is using this?

For one me; I use it to send highlighted text in the terminal to an
external program. This highlighted text could be a relative path to be
opened by the external program and thus requires a cwd.

I'm sure there are other people who use exec-formatted or other xterm
functions that rely on cwd who could benefit from this change.


ig0r

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