From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T04:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.chdir thread safety

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> There's no reason threads couldn't inherit a reference to their parent 
> thread's cwd, only using a specific one if provided (reverting back to 
> the parent's cwd afterward).
> 
> It could even be made explicit:
> 
> Thread.chdir('foo') {}

So in the case of

   Thread.chdir('foo') {puts `ls`}

the subprocess would be executed in foo ?

This would be very nice, but it seems like a major modification to 
ruby... potentially every system call would need to be aware of the 
thread cwd state.

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