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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:42:41 +0100
From: Ronnie Brunner <ronnie@netcetera.ch>
To: "David N. Welton" <davidw@dedasys.com>
Cc: websh-dev@tcl.apache.org
Subject: Re: ap_chdir_file(r->filename);
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Reply-To: Ronnie Brunner <ronnie.brunner@netcetera.ch>
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 from davidw@dedasys.com on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:26:22PM +0100

> ap_chdir_file(r->filename);
> 
> Any good reason not to do perform this operation?  I think it makes
> sense to be operating in the directory that the file is in.

I don't think that this will work in Apache 2.0: changing the working
directory in a multi-threaded environment is not a good idea according
to my experience ;-)

> I ask, because otherwise things like:
> 
> source [file join . websh.com.gen]

In that respect, this is not a good thing to do anyway. Absolute paths
should be used.

> in index.ws3, become a bit problematic (or at least it seems that way
> to me...).

For simplicity, we could provide some easy to use accessors to
different directories (like server root, document root, path to current
interp-pool source, or similar). But I wouldn't try to include this in
the current release: we wanna finish soon, right?

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