[saga-rg] NSDir - and working directory

[Tom Goodale]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tom Goodale wrote:

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

Of course that then begs the question of how to copy a local file to a 
remote file or a remote file to a local file easily.  I guess one way 
would be to use a file:// URI for that.  However if we have a directory 
object, it should have the same semantics as the current working directory 
for a process.

Tom