[saga-rg] NSDir - and working directory

[Andre Merzky]

Hmm, maybe I misunderstood the question.  Opening (or
constructing) a dir should have a uri as parameter, which is
the initial pwd.  (BTW: adding the constructors is on my
TODO list I think - thanks for the remonder ;-)

But what is about this case:

  dir d ("http://www.host.net/home/andre");

  d.copy ("http://www.host.net/home/andre/test.dat", "./test.dat");

What is the target of the copy call relative to?
As terry said, even more difficult for the relative remote
case.

Cheers, Andre.


Quoting [Tom Goodale] (Aug 26 2005):
> 
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Andre Merzky wrote:
> 
> >>6. In the very first call to a SAGA API, if the source or target is
> >>relative to a current working directory then where is the source or
> >>target current working directory set ? Particularly if the source is
> >>non-local.
> >
> >Short answer: *shrug* ;-)
> >
> >Long answer: it depends...
> 
> I was assuming the current working directory for an NSDir (well, a 
> physical directory or a logical directory) would be set in its 
> constructor, although looking at the spec I see that this is missing.  Let 
> me make it a proposal then 8-)
> 
> Tom



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