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Bug 587895 - spawn_async cannot inherit parent working directory
spawn_async cannot inherit parent working directory
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: glibmm
Classification: Bindings
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Daniel Elstner
gtkmm-forge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-06 14:10 UTC by jessevdk@gmail.com
Modified: 2009-09-16 18:48 UTC
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Description jessevdk@gmail.com 2009-07-06 14:10:38 UTC 
According to the docs, passing an empty string ("") as the working directory for spawn_async should result in inheriting the parent working directory. However, the empty string is interpreted as a path instead.
Comment 1 Daniel Elstner 2009-07-06 15:08:59 UTC 
Just pushed this to master:

2009-07-06  Daniel Elstner  <danielk@openismus.com>

	Treat empty Glib::spawn*() working dir as unset

	* glib/src/spawn.ccg (Glib::spawn_async_with_pipes): If the
	working_directory argument is the empty string, pass a 0 pointer
	to the GLib C API to make it inherit the parent's working directory.
	This is fine as the empty string is not a valid directory name, and
	our documentation already says that it will be interpreted that way.
	(Glib::spawn_async): ditto,
	(Glib::spawn_sync): ditto.

I have not merged it into any of the stable branches yet, however.
Comment 2 Daniel Elstner 2009-09-16 18:48:02 UTC 
Merged into the glibmm-2-20 branch, and in today's glibmm 2.20.2 release.