RE: [boost] boost/filesystem/directory.hpp attached for comment

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-20 18:39:50

At 05:04 PM 3/20/2002, Jeff Garland wrote:

 >> If anyone comes up with a killer argument for get/set cwd, we can 
include
 >> them.  But that hasn't happened so far.
 >
 >How about this -- I need to spawn a process and I need it to start with a
 >certain initial directory.  For that I would need setcwd.  Can't think of 
a
 >real need for getcwd b/c it is really initial_directory() that matters.
 >And of course the fatal flaw to this argument is there isn't a portable
 >library to spawn a process, but we can always hope....

Yeah, that's essentially the system() argument Dylan posted.

So far, I'm seeing these arguments as more of a flag that other library 
work is needed, rather than there being problem with 
filesystem/directory.hpp.

Someone may still come up with a killer example, of course.

Thanks,

--Beman