Re: [AD] Finding the current directory path

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On December 13, 2008, Colin Ward wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a small but oft recurring problem with my Allegro port, which is to
> do with the current directory.
>
> Often this is assumed by Allegro to be "./" which works on Unix and I
> believe also on Windows.  However, on the Amiga this doesn't work - the
> current directory is simply "".  So trying to open a file such as
> "./allegro.cfg" will fail.
>
> I have changed a couple of files in Allegro to strip out this ./ prefix for
> now, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to do this
> more generically.  Is there any actual need for Allegro to use ./ even on
> Unix?  A good example of this is in file.c:pack_fopen_chunk() on line 1987
> where it has the comment:
>
> /* Give up - try current directory */
>
> Any reason why it strdup()'s "./" and not ""?

because on any sane OS "." is "current directory". If your OS doesn't do it, 
its likely broken.

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