Re: strange session management stuff

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

The shell runs as a child process of the gnome-terminal.  When you change
the directory in the shell, there is no portable way that the
gnome-terminal process can detect this without the help of the shell
itself.

There are non portable ways to deduce the current working directory of a
process (for instance, under linux, see the /proc/num/cwd symlink).  That
is why I said it may be possible to do with libgtop.

James.

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote:

> James Henstridge wrote:
> > 
> > Saving the scrollback buffer of gnome-terminal is easy.  Getting
> > gnome-terminal to save the current working directory of a shell is more
> > difficult, but could be done portably using libgtop (I think -- does it
> > support finding the CWD?).  It would take a lot more work to get SM
> > support in all console applications though.
> > 
> > It would be nice to support the first two though.
> 
> 
> huh, doesn't getenv would be fine ? 
> 
> getenv("PWD");
> 
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