Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!chris%umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay
From: chris%umcp-cs%CSNet-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re:  ChangeDirectory() in #85
Message-ID: <13668@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 09:14:53 EST
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13668
Posted: Tue Nov 15 09:14:53 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Nov-83 00:17:31 EST
Lines: 13

From:  Chris Torek <chris%umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay>

Works fine for me!  In fact, by a clever trick (read "hack") Emacs
ensures that no matter who does what to its code, it always knows
what directory it's in.  Y'see, what they did is replace the C
library chdir() routine with one that fiddles with the current
directory (as known in abspath.c) and then does a ``syscall (12,
...)'' (or whatever the chdir syscall number is).

And if you don't like that, you can always replace it with ``asm
("chmk $12");''! :-)

Chris