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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: GEMDOS dir/drive changing
Keywords: GEMDOS Dsetpath
Message-ID: <2817@atari.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 21:55:07 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.005301.3620@convex.com>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz) writes:
>if i Pexec a process, then within that process do a Dsetpath/Dsetdrv,
>when i return from the Pexec, will the parent think it is back in the
>same dir before the Pexec, or will the child's actions be
>propagated back to the parent? in other words, is GEMDOS's concept
>of current/default directory global in scope or is it per process?

Why don't you try it?  The answer is that it's per-process.  The
information is stored partly internally in GEMDOS and partly in the
process' basepage (in the GEMDOS-private part).

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