On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:17:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > fchdir() is not portable. > > I think it would be better to not chdir() at all. Yes, that means having > to prepend the prefix to the names, but that is what git generally does > (for that - and other - reasons). I was using the "even Solaris has it!" test, but yes, it's not POSIX. I don't know how common it actually is (for curiosity's sake, do you know of a common platform that lacks it?). But I do agree that just building up the path and avoiding the chdir at all is simple and portable. -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
