On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:40:55PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> > Should OVS chdir to the root (on all drives?) on Windows
>> > also?
>> Looks like chdir("/") on windows takes me to C:/ . So doing that on
>> windows should be good. I will re-spin this.
>
> OK.
>
> If Windows works like it used to, there's an independent notion of the
> current working directory on every drive, so one would have to do
> something like:
>
> char c;
>
> for (c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
> char dir[] = {c, ':', '/', 0};
> chdir(dir);
> }
>
> to really chdir to the root everywhere. But I do not know whether it
> matters.
I see that this notion is true in current versions of windows too.
I suppose a working directory for every drive is useful if a program
changes its drive midway in the program. (This is what I understood
after trying reading some msdn documentation, though there are
probably other reasons too.)
I decided to use the first version of this patch for the time being
(which does not do anything other than accept the "--chdir" option.
Once I see a real use case for doing something, I will add the
feature.
Thanks,
Guru
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