2009/8/19 Timothy S. Nelson :
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> Ok, so suppose we only allowed direct assignment to absolute paths?
>
That would be currently how it works.
--
Carlin
2009/8/19 Timothy S. Nelson :
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> So, if P5 does it for some global (note: global != environment)
> variables, then why not do it for some in P6?
>
Because if (for some reason) I do:
$> = 5; # Which calls setuid(5);
print $>; # 5
Whereas:
$*CWD = '..'; # which hypothetically calls chdir
2009/8/18 David Green :
> On 2009-Aug-18, at 3:27 am, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
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>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, David Green wrote:
>>>
> or however that would work in P6. It may have problems, but by definition
> they're the same problems as chdir() has. What am I missing?
>
>
chdir is a familar funct
2009/8/18 Timothy S. Nelson :
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> It's not in the revised spec, but I think that, even though we've
> revived chdir, we should still have it so that changing $*CWD will do a
> chdir under the hood.
>
While in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, having a "magic
2009/8/18 :
> Author: wayland
> Date: 2009-08-18 09:24:07 +0200 (Tue, 18 Aug 2009)
> New Revision: 28017
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> +=item chdir FILENAME
> +X X
> +
> +=item chdir
> +
> +Gone, just set $*CWD (which throws an exception if it fails).
> +
chdir provides functionality that would be quite convoluted to mimi
