How do I chdir in an exec?

Andy Armstrong andy at hexten.net
Mon Mar 9 20:25:45 GMT 2009


On 9 Mar 2009, at 20:22, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> The same.  It's a good idea.  My reservations about allowing exec to  
> be a
> subref in the config file are general purpose ones based on the idea  
> of
> putting executable code into a config file.  I don't really have a  
> strong opinion.
>
> I do still think it should look in $PWD and $HOME layering the one  
> in $PWD on
> top of $HOME.  Andy's right that it might produce hard to diagnose
> configurations, but I think the power is worth the possibility that  
> the user
> will hang their self.  Otherwise it becomes only of use to a project  
> and not
> to the user running the test.
>
> A simple diagnostic tool would be an option to dump out the config  
> as TH sees
> it noting where each option came from.


Or even to include comments about which config files had been included  
in the default output.

So, yeah - OK. Anyone volunteering to do it? :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten



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