[saga-rg] NSDir - and working directory

[Andre Merzky]

Hmm, ja, you are right I guess.  Otherwise we would speak
about multiple pwd's, which does not make sense.

A.


Quoting [Tom Goodale] (Aug 26 2005):
> 
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Andre Merzky wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> It should be relative to the pwd of d, in the same way as when I do
> 
> cd /home/andre
> 
> cp /home/andre/test.dat ./test.dat
> 
> (which would of course give an error as they are the same file);  target 
> is relative to the current working directory.
> 
> Tom
> 
> >
> >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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