Re: Review of SRFI 170 through 3.2 I/O Lassi Kortela 23 Apr 2020 07:02 UTC

>     Could we simply add some prose to SRFI 170 permitting
>     implementations to
>     translate relative pathnames per the thread CWD before passing them to
>     the syscalls?
>
> It seems to me that would break portability, but I can't quite put my
> finger on why.

The kernel translates relative pathnames to absolute ones anyway. It
shouldn't be a problem if we translate one step earlier, on the Scheme side.