What's process current directory? [modified]

[JackPuppy]

there is a directory containing the executable image file and there is another directory called "process current diretory" and every current diretory per process. Indeed, what is current directory and where is it? Any one can help me?

modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 3:37 AM

[Garth J Lancaster]

yeah, well, people use different terms to mean differnt things .. I think you mean :- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364934(VS.85).aspx[^] as opposed to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683197(VS.85).aspx[^] (directory containing the executable image file)

[sashoalm]

basicly, it's what the command CD used to set when people used DOS so if you open the dos box and type:

CD C:\mydir\
"C:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe"

notepad would have a current directory C:\mydir, not C:\WINDOWS but since in a GUI you can't explicitly change the current directory i'm not sure what use it has anymore

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