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From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-04 08:53:21


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>

> > > Nay, this is not what the method does. It actually does
> > > rm -rf . && cp -r dir .
> > > as you already spelled it, not
> > > mkdir /tmp/another_tmp_dir && cp dir /tmp/another_tmp_dir &&
cd
> >
> > /tmp/another_tmp_dir
> >
> > Oh.
> >
> > rewrite_cwd - replaces the contents of the current working
> > directory with the contents of a specified directory.
>
> Not yet right -- it rewrites the content of the scracth directory
created
> when the tester object was created, not the current working dir.

Now I'm really confused. You used '.' above, which always refers to the
CWD. You also said that the creation of the tester sets the CWD to the
scratch directory.

-Dave

 


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