Bug #41755 for Cwd: getdcwd does not work as expected within a forked process in Win32

Tue Dec 16 09:29:40 2008 alanhaggai [...] alanhaggai.org - Ticket created

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getdcwd does not work as expected within a forked process in Win32

Hi, getdcwd does not return the correct drive/directory combination within a forked process in Win32. Please check the accompanying program: #!perl -wl use strict; use Cwd; if (fork) { chdir 'C:/Windows'; print getdcwd; # Output: C:\Windows } else { chdir 'C:/temp'; print getdcwd; # Output: C:\Windows } Regards, Alan Haggai Alavi. -- The difference makes the difference

Wed Dec 17 12:51:17 2008 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

What version of perl is this? Is it ActivePerl or something else? Also, how do you know that the chdir() commands succeeded? -Ken

Wed Dec 17 12:51:18 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Dec 17 20:36:18 2008 alanhaggai [...] alanhaggai.org - Correspondence added

On Wed Dec 17 12:51:17 2008, KWILLIAMS wrote: Show quoted text

> What version of perl is this? Is it ActivePerl or something else? > Also, how do you know that the chdir() commands succeeded? > > -Ken

Hi Ken, Perl: ActivePerl (v5.10.0) Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) cwd() inside each of the processes return the correct paths. So, it seems chdir() succeeded. I did try with sleep() to ensure that concurrent executions are not interfering. The problem persists. Regards, Alan Haggai Alavi. -- The difference makes the difference