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Re: Current Directory of a Process

At 9:58 -0400 10/7/03, Robert Sandilands wrote:
I have seen that basically all file access does provide the full path except the Terminal.

I guess it depends on whether you want a 100% solution, or just a statistically significant one.

To keep track of the current directory you just have to keep track of all SYS_chdir calls... But it is really ugly, but not as ugly as the solutions you mention.

Indeed.

If I could add a feature request wish for a future version of the kernel, I would like to see a variable somewhere that stores the current working directory on a per process basis.

The best place to put such feature requests is into our bug tracking database. Please include a high-level description of what you're trying to do and how the feature would facilitate your product.

<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>

These go directly to the engineers responsible.

I get the impression that your design is predicated on patching the system call table? If so, I feel compelled to warn you that this is unlikely to be binary compatible with future releases of Mac OS X. If you base a product on this technology and ship that product to end users, you must be prepared to release updates as we update Mac OS X.

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