Re: Why is dump-scsh-program failing here?

>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Hanson <[email protected]> writes:

    Rick> You say that the pre-condition is that you don't have write
    Rick> access to '/' 

Correct.
                        
    Rick> and then you're trying to write a file (via
    Rick> 'write-image') into '/'?  

Wrong.  I'm trying to write a file via write-image into my current
directory, which (I didn't make clear) was my home directory.  (Or,
presumably, any directory to which I have write access.)
                                    
    Rick> Am I missing some other info?

Perhaps -- (with-cwd) is supposed to _temporarily_ set the working
directory, evaluate its body (which in my example is just the number
0), then restore it.

If you put (display (cwd)) after the call to (with-cwd), but before
the call to dump-scsh-program, you'll see that your working directory
is not /, but rather, whatever it was when you started the program.
This is the correct behavior.

However, despite that, the call to dump-scsh-program will _still_ fail
with "Permission denied".

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