getcwd() and friends.

[G. Ewing]

The Grey Wolf (greywolf at unisoft.UUCP) writes:
>Do you really mean "rather than" as "instead of"?  I like the idea of

Perhaps open() should be the only system call that takes a pathname,
all others taking a file descriptor, with library routines to provide
the rest.

>how would you change the mode of a file that was mode
>000?

Open it with O_NOTHING, of course.

># Just execute the directory by chdir-ing to it!

Once I created a directory called emacs to put my .el files in. Then I
wondered why the emacs command wouldn't work. The shell saw this thing
in the search path called emacs with the x bit on, and tried to execute
it...

I guess auto-chdir isn't such a silly idea. On the Mac, you run a program
by double clicking it, and you open a folder by double-clicking it. You
can also run a program by double clicking one of its documents. What
would that correspond to in a shell?

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