Re: [9fans] bug in libcomplete?

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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done and sources updated

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From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in libcomplete?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:35:48 -0800
Message-ID: <D85938EA-5F0B-11D8-A6FF-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com>

no, the bug is rio. it doesn't set /dev/wdir in this case.

add
	if(dir)
		w->dir = estrdup(dir)
after the call to wsetname() in new() in /sys/src/cmd/rio/rio.c

-rob

On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 07:15 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> libcomplete depends on 'cd' to find our which directory the user is
> in.  this breaks its behaviour with respect to programs which
> implicitly chdir when started, one example is the 'window' command --
> cd /tmp and run window, hit the complete key and you'll get the
> contents of your $home.  The following example is a freshly created
> window in the /tmp directory:
>
>
>
> 	home% pwd
> 	/tmp
> 	[bin/ lib/ tmp/]
> 	home% cd `{pwd}
> 	[58 files]
> 	home%
>
> pwd shows i'm in /tmp, completion thinks i'm in $home, then the same
> thing after "cd `{pwd}"
>
> andrey