Re: [MiNT] Test program for shel_write(SWM_LAUNCH, ...)

[Jean-François Lemaire <jflemaire@skynet.be>]

On Sunday 20 October 2013 13:13:42 Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > Why 2 times? Because on my system, the 1st swcalle.prg instance has a
> > correct working directory (something like "F:\swtest") but the second
> > instance always has "U:\c\mint\1-19-CUR\XAAES". (NOTE: My suspicion is
> > that on
> > other systems the current working directory is wrong everytime).
> 
> XaAES sets the path to it's own home after it launched a client. This is
> only useful if the actual caller is XaAES (I guess). In your case swcaller
> is the caller and so things go wrong. I'm not sure if the path should
> always be restored to the caller's home-path

It seems to me that the launched application should have it's working 
directory set to its own path. If not, many applications will break when 
launched via shel_write().

> - now it's only reset in case
> of XaAES being the caller.
> 
> Patch committed to my branch.

Thanks, I'll test the next build.

Cheers,
JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire