• Andrej Mitrovic (4/4) May 28 2011 E.g.:
• Bernard Helyer (3/11) May 28 2011 Because system starts a shell process -- the cd only affects that
• Andrej Mitrovic (2/2) May 28 2011 Oh ok. I thought console apps would automagically follow cd calls

Andrej Mitrovic <none none.none> writes:

E.g.:

import std.process;
system(r"cd C:\newfolder");  // no effect

It just stays in the same folder as the exe. I can use SetCurrentDirectoryA as
an alternative, but why doesn't it work via the system call?

Bernard Helyer <b.helyer gmail.com> writes:

On Sun, 29 May 2011 00:54:10 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 E.g.:
 
 import std.process;
 system(r"cd C:\newfolder");  // no effect
 
 It just stays in the same folder as the exe. I can use
 SetCurrentDirectoryA as an alternative, but why doesn't it work via the
 system call?

Because system starts a shell process -- the cd only affects that 
process, not the parent process (that's you!).

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

Oh ok. I thought console apps would automagically follow cd calls
invoked via system. I got it wrong. Thanks.