From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: DOS/Windows-specific code: cli-cmds.c
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 07:16:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010508101445.D23273@redhat.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00121.html

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:41:53PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>    * cli-cmds.c:
>
>    /* FIXME: this should be auto-configured!  */
>    #ifdef __MSDOS__
>    # define CANT_FORK
>    #endif
>
>This seems to cry for either an Autoconf test (based on whether the
>compiler defines __MSDOS__ or not) or perhaps the whole snippet should
>be moved to config/i386/xm-go32.h.

IMO, it should be moved to xm-go32.h.

>    * cli-cmds.c:shell_escape()
>
>    #ifdef __DJGPP__
>      /* Make sure to return to the directory GDB thinks it is, in case the
>	 shell command we just ran changed it.  */
>      chdir (current_directory);
>    #endif
>
>This code is there because the current working directory is a global
>notion (as opposed to being private to each process on Posix
>systems).  Windows ports, at least the non-Cygwin ones, probably want
>this as well.  Suggestions how to test this, anyone?  Should we define
>a GLOBAL_CURDIR macro (zero by default)?

GLOBAL_CURDIR makes sense to me.

cgf