On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:34 AM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

I could also take another look at the draft.

Yes, please do. The easiest way to read the latest version on line is at <http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnwcowan/srfi-170/master/srfi-170.html>.

We discussed adding 170 to Gambit with Marc, and he again made the case
that requiring the Scheme CWD to be equal to the OS CWD is not practical
for multi-threaded programs.

Would it make sense to add language to the SRFI saying that
implementations may use pathnames relative to a custom CWD if they want to?

I don't understand the reasoning behind this. Posix describes chdir() as per-process, so changing it will affect all threads.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan xxxxxx@ccil.org
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