Treatment of x:path again
Benjamin Riefenstahl
Benjamin.Riefenstahl@ision.net
Tue Oct 17 03:54:00 GMT 2000
Hi Lassi,
Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
> FWIW, it seems this isn't even possible under Win32. Based on MSDN docs
> it sounds like Win32 maintains only one current directory and really
> knows nothing about disk drives in that context.
Indeed, a simple test on NT4/SP6 using only Win32 functions
SetCurrentDirectory() and GetCurrentDirectory() confirms that Windows
itself does not care about drives in this context.
> It is only cmd.exe that maintains an illusion of a current
> directory for all the drives on Windows NT and 2000.
Actually I have seen code in Borland's runtime that maintains the
illusion of a per-drive current directory. This of course is in runtime
functions like chdir() and getcwd() and similar ones. I assume
Microsoft's runtimes do the same. Cygwin's, as we have heard, doesn't
(understandably (sp?)). Neither does the internal Tcl runtime BTW.
so long, benny
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