Re: Re: [UnixOS2] libc

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:40:23PM +0200, Sebastian Wittmeier (ShadoW) wrote:
> >Hello? The presence of an _chdir2 entry point prevents the programmer
> >in porting Unix applications?
> 
> I like drive letters. You can quickly switch between them, and each has
> its own current directory. The concept of current directory is
> important - all commonly used operating systems have it; with drive
> letters you get more then one. They don't have to reflect real hard
> drives; there is TVFS, Netdrive, LVM, ...

IIRC, from (circa) WinNT on Win32 the current directory is not
localized per drive.  CMD.EXE has its own logic to emulate the old
behaviour.

[All this from memory of discussions long ago on perl5-porters.]

Hope this helps,
Ilya