From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-09T23:59:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17542] Re: Dir.chdir

stephen.hill@motorola.com (Steve Hill) writes:

> I'm just wondering if there might be any call for Dir.chdir to be able
> to take a block which would then be processed with the working dir set
> to the dir changed to, so that instead of writing something like

That's been implemented in 1.7.

However, it isn't quite as simple as it seems, as chdir is a
process-wide attribute, so two threads doing a chdir with a block
would clash. The interpreter currently gets around this by banning
chdirs while another chdir block is running.



Dave