Re: [issue #2723] 'diff' output, and handling chdir() in multi-threaded applications

> I'd like to be able to provide some control over the appearance of the
> paths used in the diff output to Subclipse and other consumers of our
> client APIs. Currently, the only way I can see to provide this
> control for relative paths is to chdir() to the appropriate directory
> before running 'diff'. (I have a patch implementing this which works
> fine.)
>

As it was correctly pointed out, chaidr() is totally MT unsafe. But why
do you needi to chdir the *parent* process? You need to chdir in the
*forked* process before exec(). In Windows, CreateProcess receives the
cwd for the new process as a parameter. APR must have handle this
(haven't checked).

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Received on Sat Mar 3 02:34:02 2007